Art in America

Claudia Rankine, We Asked Claudia Rankine to Name One Artwork She Considers a “Revelation”

Kelly Presutti, This Rare Winslow Homer Show Lets You Delight in the Puzzle of His Process

The Art Newspaper

Alex Wang, Japan’s 400-year-old Kumamoto Castle damaged by 7.1 magnitude earthquake

Gareth Harris, UK artist Conrad Shawcross sounds alarm on Jodrell Bank Observatory funding cuts

Jori Finkel, Comment | The Obama Presidential Center aims high, like a Gothic cathedral

Hadani Ditmars, Family of donor who helped establish Canadian Museum for Human Rights to pause support over Palestine exhibit

Martin Bailey, Two US ambassadors have displayed Van Goghs in their London residence—but Donald Trump’s pick for the job can’t quite follow suit

Artforum

EDITOR’S PICK - From the Editors, U.K. Museums Association Unites With American Alliance of Museums Against Trump: The Trump administration’s repeated attempts to undermine and attack the Smithsonian are being met with international pushback.

From the Editors, $22 Million Renovation of LA’s Watts Towers to Begin in October

From the Editors, Valentin Noujaïm awarded Han Nefkens Foundation Video Art Production Grant

From the Editors, Shanghai Institutions Launch Arts-Based Initiative to Provide Mental Health Support

Artnet

Annikka Olsen, A New Richard Estes Survey Proves There’s More to Photorealism Than Meets the Eye

Katya Kazakina, The Hole Faces Fresh Non-Payment Claims—and Other Art World Matters

Vittoria Benzine, Get Ready to Boogie! John Travolta’s ‘Saturday Night Fever’ Suit Is Up for Auction

Richard Whiddington, V&A Museum Workers Vote to Strike

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Simone Forti, Performance Art Trailblazer, Dies at 91

Sonia Manalili and Andrew Russeth, An Untold History of the Art Market

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Will Tariff Tensions Ebb for the Art Trade? And Other Art World Matters

ARTnews

Emi Eleode, The New Africa Cultural Initiative Hopes to Build a Collaborative Arts Infrastructure in Africa—and for Africa

Maximilíano Durón, Gilberto Cárdenas, Top Collector of Latinx Art and Leading Scholar of Latino Studies, Has Died at 79

Andy Battaglia, Aerial Surveys of Brazil Find New Evidence of Pre-Colombian Civilization

Daniel Cassady, Judge Says David Nahmad May Owe Millions in Nazi-Looted Modigliani Case

Daniel Cassady, V&A East Storehouse Workers Vote to Strike Over Working Conditions

Leigh Anne Miller, Trump Unveils Re-gilded ‘Arts of War’ Horse Statues Near Lincoln Memorial

Harrison Jacobs, A New Nasher Jury, Zachary Fine Joins New Yorker, and More: Industry Moves for July 30, 2026

Tessa Solomon, Cyberattack on Dresden State Art Collections Lasted Days, Authorities Reveal

Scott Feinberg, Netflix Acquires Richard Avedon Documentary for 2026 Release After Cannes Debut

Harrison Jacobs, FBI Executes Search on Blue-Chip Gallery That May Be Owned by Notorious Philadelphia Collector

Leigh Anne Miller, Documentary About the Sculptor Thaddeus Mosley, “Keeper of Trees Anywhere,” Now in Production

Brian Boucher, At 8,000 Feet Above Sea Level, the Aspen Art Fair Aims to Offer an Elevated Experience, With Brisk Sales, Cold Plunges, and Mountain Hikes

ArtReview

Robert Barry, The Blockchain Fantasy is Dying

Family Style

Rachel Summer Small, The World Is Your…

Frieze

Mounira Zennia, Tanya Lukin Linklater Traces the Limits of Repatriation

Galerie

Annabel Keenan, Artist to Watch: Maia Cruz Palileo Channels Family’s Immigration Story into Paintings, Sculptures, and More

Jacoba Urist, Artist to Watch: Meghann Stephenson Explores Femininity, Self-Destruction, and Perfectionism in Latest Series

Julie Belcove, Meet 6 Visionary Women Shaping the Art World in 2026

Ted Loos, Artist to Watch: Ben Tong Uses a Cool Palette with Unexpected Bursts to Create Powerful Paintings

Jacqueline Terrebonne, Photographer Douglas Friedman Reveals His Personal Connection to a Will Cotton Artwork

Michael Slenske, Artist to Watch: Eva Helene Pade Looks to Nightclubs and Ballet for Her Cinematic Paintings

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones, Beguiling beauties, designs to be sat on and giant corn dollies – the week in art

Veronica Esposito, From Felix the Cat to MTV: MoMA explores a century of animation

Hyperallergic

Matt Stromberg, Simone Forti, Artist of Movement and Chance, Dies at 91

Anna Lee, Trump Regilds DC Statues Mar-a-Lago Style

Natasha Seaman, Why Did Rembrandt Die Poor?

Lisa Yin Zhang, Todd Caissie Takes the Helm at the Montclair Art Museum

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Required Reading

Isa Farfan, Trump’s Border Expansion Threatens 6,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings

Rhea Nayyar, Israel Incensed as UNESCO Adds Lebanese and West Bank Sites to World Heritage List

MOMUS

Carolina A. Miranda, “You Create Your Own Situation”: On Mel Edwards and Juan Sánchez

The New York Times

Zachary Small, After Claiming ‘Bias’ at Smithsonian, Trump Officials Stage Patriotic Exhibition

Robin Pogrebin, For Museum Boss Who Became a Trump Target, It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again

Walker Mimms, What Exactly Did Pop Art Give Us?

Observer

Henry Roberts, At MICAS, Reggie Burrows Hodges’s Vision of Malta

Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Views of Vexation of Spirit” at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto

Elisa Carollo, Jean-Marc Bustamante Gives Arles a New Contemporary Art Space

Henry Roberts, In Saint-Tropez, a Gallery Scene Has Grown Up Alongside the Glamour

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Art in America

Emily Watlington, A Museum Dares to Reveal What It Really Costs to Make an Exhibition

The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris, ‘Amazon-style’ conditions: Prospect union members overwhelmingly vote to strike at London’s V&A museums

Helen Stoilas, Betye Saar, assemblage artist who reframed racist and sexist imagery, has died, aged 99

Alexander Morrison, Lessons from Notre-Dame inform reconstruction of Copenhagen Stock Exchange building

Aimee Dawson, Artist starts legal case against Meta for deleting her Instagram account

EDITOR’S PICK - Daniel Grant, Arts groups in US cities that increased culture funding during Covid have rebounded more quickly: report: While municipal funding covered a modest share of organisations’ expenses, it had an outsized impact in cities that increased their cultural support, a new study from DataArts shows

Gareth Harris, English Heritage debuts daily prize draw for ‘private time’ at Stonehenge this August

Elena Goukassian, Treasures from Ancient Egypt’s ‘Golden City’, and the stories of the people who made them, revealed in San Francisco show

Artforum

From the Editors, Simone Forti, Giant of Postmodern Dance, Dead at 91

From the Editors, Pair Who Covered Picasso with Photo of Palestinian Mother and Child Found Guilty of Criminal Damage

From the Editors, Beleaguered Philadelphia Museum of Art Reports $10 Million Deficit

From the Editors, SFMOMA Announces it Has Acquired Hundreds of Artworks in 2026

Artnet

Min Chen, Inside Filmmaker Gregg Araki’s Kinky New Art-World Romp

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Will Tariff Tensions Ebb for the Art Trade? And Other Art World Matters

Richard Whiddington, Fra Angelico’s First Major Altarpiece Gets a Groundbreaking Repair

Vittoria Benzine, A Trove of Eminem’s Sneakers Hits the Auction Block

Min Chen, Gee’s Bend Meets Ralph Lauren—and Other Art World Matters

ARTnews

Karen Chernick, The Bayeux Tapestry Has Returned to the UK for the First Time in Nearly 1,000 Years—Here’s What to Know

Francesca Aton, With a Massive Oyster Installation, Artist Alan Michelson Wants to Connect New York Harbor to Its Indigenous Ancestry

Devorah Lauter, Simone Forti, Leading Figure of New York’s Judson Dance Theater Scene, Has Died at 91

Maximilíano Durón, Harvard Art Museums Tested Out Using Generative AI to Animate 18th-Century Painting as Part of Marketing Campaign

Anne Doran, French Scientists Precisely Date a Paleolithic Cave Painting for the First Time as About 13,000 Years Old

Andy Battaglia, Yoshitomo Nara’s First Show with David Zwirner Slated for October in New York

Daniel Cassady, Christie’s to Sell Monet Masterpiece From Durand-Ruel Collection in Paris

Tessa Solomon, Mayor Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre Tax Puts Art World Heavyweights in the Spotlight

Harrison Jacobs, American Alliance of Museums Slams Trump Administration’s Report on the Smithsonian

Brian Boucher, Hankering to See Salvator Mundi? An Artist Opened a Museum of the World’s Priciest Painting in His Brooklyn Lobby

Andy Battaglia, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Announces Exhibitors for Upcoming London Edition

Daniel Cassady, Metis Co-Founder Rebecca Fine on Why Art Lending Is Becoming a Bigger Part of Wealth Management

ArtReview

Fi Churchman, ‘Snow’ by Sohrab Hura, reviewed

From the Editors, Simone Forti, pioneer of postmodern dance, 1935 – 2026

Frieze

Shalmali Shetty, Chitra Ganesh’s Descent into the Underworld

Louisa Elderton, Mooni Perry Uncovers the Ghosts of Empire

The Guardian

Anita Chaudhuri, ‘We have to become warriors’: the fight to save the world’s only women’s sculpture park

Luke Harding, ‘Lenin was an enemy of humanity’: Why Kyiv wants to put Cossack chief statue in place of Soviet leader

Eromo Egbejule, Artists find creative haven in Côte d’Ivoire’s ‘calm and soothing’ Grand Bassam

Hyperallergic

Agnish Ray, Madrid Museum Puts Picasso in Dialogue With “African Guernica”

Rhea Nayyar, Sexual Assault Allegations Get Artists Canceled More Than Murder, Study Finds

Isabella Segalovich, The Shakers Weren’t Minimalists

Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Betelhem Makonnen, Betye Saar, and Keith A. Morrison

Hrag Vartanian, A Precious Garden Grows at MoMA PS1

Debra Brehmer, Widline Cadet’s Doubled Diaspora

The Los Angeles Times

Jane Horowitz, ‘It’s been the right time for a long time’: Behind Watts Towers’ $22-million campus renovation

The New York Times

Roslyn Sulcas, Iris van Herpen: Please Pleat With Me

Observer

Jasmine Lobe, Inside the First Watermill Center Summer Festival Without Robert Wilson

Elisa Carollo, How Nicola Lees Recentered the Aspen Art Museum Around Artists Instead of Objects

Puck

Marion Maneker, Condition Report: Jennifer Wright, Christie’s Old Masters

The Wall Street Journal

Michael J. Lewis, The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library: At One With Nature

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The Art Newspaper

Annabel Keenan, Artists visualise environmental fragility and resilience on New York’s Governors Island

Sarvy Geranpayeh, Sites in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine among 25 new additions to Unesco’s World Heritage List

Daniel Grant, Trump administration’s new tariff regime exempts art and antique imports from most countries

From the Editors, Curating for the new No. 10 North: six art suggestions for the UK’s prime minister

Artforum

Andrea Gyorody, Matters of Spirit: Two Los Angeles Exhibitions Attempt to Locate the Spiritual in Contemporary Art

From the Editors, Betye Saar, Leading Figure of the Black Arts Movement, Dies at 99

From the Editors, Detroit Institute of Arts Receives Over 2,000 Artworks from Silverman Estate

From the Editors, Art Institute of Chicago To Lay Off Entire Custodial Staff

From the Editors, 13 Works By Finnish Architects Alvar, Aino, and Elissa Aalto Added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List

Artnet

John Chiaverina, At Watermill’s Summer Fete, EYE’s Noise Performance Induced Transcendence

Min Chen, Gee’s Bend Meets Ralph Lauren—and Other Art World Matters

Katya Kazakina, Art World’s Top Players Turn Up in New York’s Pied-à-Terre Tax Database

Vittoria Benzine, A Rare Early Frank Gehry Home Is for Sale

Jo Lawson-Tancred, $1 Billion Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Finally Gets an Opening Date

ARTnews

EDITOR’S PICK - From the Editors, The 30 Best Art Museums in the US: Time to start checking these off your bucket list.

Harrison Jacobs, Artist Dustin Yellin Has a Hot Take for Viral ‘Subway Takes’ Show

Andy Battaglia, UK Jury Convicts Activists Who Covered a Picasso With Image of Gazan Mother and Child at the National Gallery

Devorah Lauter, Works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and George Condo Among Those Caught in Major Vancouver Real Estate Fraud Lawsuit

Tessa Solomon, Museums, Curators, and Artists Say Goodbye to Betye Saar: ‘Thank You for the Dance’

Brian Boucher, Artist Robert Lazzarini Will Unveil Works Intended for the US Pavilion This Fall in Boston

Leigh Anne Miller, Bennale of Sydney Appoints Low Kee Hong Artistic Director of 2028 Editioni

Harrison Jacobs, The Phildelphia Museum of Art Ran a $10 M. Deficit This Past Fiscal Year

Tessa Solomon, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Sets December Opening Date

Daniel Cassady, National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged in Alleged Car Bomb Plot

Devorah Lauter, Bernard Arnault Hits Back at Le Monde Report Accusing Him of Being ‘In Love With the Arts and Tax Exemptions’

Anne Doran, SFMOMA Announces Recent Gifts and Purchases of Modern and Contemporary Artworks

ArtReview

Pallavi Surana, The Politics of Belonging at the India Pavilion

Robert Barry, Oliver Beer’s Music for Paintings

From the Editors, Betye Saar, artist confronting racist stereotypes, 1926–2026

From the Editors, Low Kee Hong named artistic director of 2028 Biennale of Sydney

From the Editors, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi announces opening date

BOMB

Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Vian Sora by Wassan Al-Khudhairi

Ksenia M. Soboleva, Ash Fure by Ksenia M. Soboleva

Frieze

Andrew Maerkle, Why the Japanese Flag Matters to All of Us

Louisa Elderton, Mooni Perry Uncovers the Ghosts of Empire

Mathilde Walker-Billaud, Marilou Schultz Treats Weaving as a Technology

The Guardian

Charlotte Jansen, Portrait of a City review – master photographers capture the US cityscape in all its grime, grit and glory

Jonathan Jones, ‘He made Damien Hirst look like a sideshow’: the bloodsplash horrors of Gunther von Hagens

Roque Planas, Betye Saar, pioneering figure of Black arts movement, dies aged 99

Hyperallergic

Anna Lee, Man Arrested in Broad Daylight Theft of 2,500-Year-Old Gold Torque From French Museum

Eileen G’Sell, The Queer Surrealists Who Fought Nazis With Paper Bullets

Anna Lee, Historic Japanese Castle Damaged in 7.1-Magnitude Earthquake

Julia Curl, Walter Benjamin Warned Us About AI

Isa Farfan, Photobook Publisher Steidl in Dire Straits After Threat of Bankruptcy

The Los Angeles Times

Jessica Gelt, 5 powerful works by Betye Saar that represent her fearless vision, in art and life

The New York Times

Joseph Giovannini, How the Curtain Rose on One of Zaha Hadid’s Final Acts

Zachary Small, Long-Delayed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to Open in December

The New Yorker

Zachary Fine, Fairfield Porter’s Lush, Lonely Vision of the World

Observer

Tamar Lortkipanidze, The Best Art Galleries in Porto, Portugal

Lucas Bitencourt, What the Venice Biennale Reveals About the West’s Cultural Confidence

Elisa Carollo, A Summer Art Road Trip Through the South of France

Elisa Carollo, Carmen Argote Turns Cochineal’s Extractive History Into a Study of Embodiment

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Artist sues Kai Matsumiya gallery over alleged unpaid sale proceeds

Adam Schrader, Appeals court says artist sued Jeff Koons too late over ‘Made in Heaven’ snake sculpture

Adam Schrader, Why Gaza’s Palestinian-led reconstruction must prioritize culture and archives

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Apollo

Rachel Cohen, The knotty thinking of Anni Albers

Phillip Hoare, The Quaker who painted what he preached

The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi announces opening date

Vincent Noce, Culture minister Catherine Pégard reveals ‘national security plan’ following another major museum theft in France

Benjamin Sutton, Trump orders signage to be erected outside Smithsonian museum warning visitors of political bias

Gareth Harris, Royal College of Art and Norwich University of the Arts announce jointly awarded undergraduate degrees

Elizabeth Fortescue, Low Kee Hong chosen to curate Biennale of Sydney's next edition

Constanza Ontiveros Valdés, Possible ancient human remains and Maya ceramics found in Mexican cenote

Aimee Dawson, Dia Azzawi donates work to charity auction supporting displaced people in Lebanon

Carlie Porterfield, Art Dealers Association of America's fair returns after one-year hiatus with a leaner line-up

ArtAsiaPacific

Matt A. Hanson, A Degree of Separation: Interview with Başak Doğa Temür

Sabrina Hau, Valentin Noujaïm Wins Han Nefkens Foundation’s Mediterranean Video Art Grant

Kalani Ko, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa Named Artistic Director of 2028 Aichi Triennale

Artforum

Coco Fusco, Involuntary Gesture: Coco Fusco Speaks to Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara

From the Editors, Trump Administration Issues Demand for Politicized Lawn Signs at Smithsonian

From the Editors, Former Whitechapel Chief Curator Lydia Yee To Lead Kuala Lumpur Nonprofit

From the Editors, 2,500-Year-Old Gold Collar Heisted From Museum in Broad Daylight

From the Editors, V&A Staffers Prepare Strike Ballot over Hot-Weather Work Conditions

From the Editors, ADAA Announces List Of 63 Participant Galleries For The Inaugural ADAA Fair In New York

From the Editors, Immigrant Artist Biennial Announces Third Iteration, ‘Identity Card’

Artnet

Ben Davis, Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Big Budget Crisis—and Other Art World Matters

Vittoria Benzine, Betye Saar, Who Turned Black Stereotypes Into Symbols of Resistance, Dies at 99

Annika Olsen, A Haunting: For Gagosian Debut, Eliza Douglas Recycles Unsold Paintings, Channels the Paranormal

Vittoria Benzine, Faro Santander’s Inaugural Exhibitions Led by Contested Gelman Collection

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Charli XCX Joins National Portrait Gallery’s Storied Ranks

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón and Devorah Lauter, Betye Saar, Pioneering Assemblage Artist Who Powerfully Tackled Racism, Dies at 99

Harrison Jacobs, Who is Matthew Taylor, the Artist Helping Trump Reshape Washington, D. C.?

Brian Boucher, Czech Artist and Museum Director Milan Knížák, Once Imprisoned as an ‘Enemy of the State,’ Has Died at 86

Lilyanna Di’Amato, Betye Saar Dead at 99—Here are 5 Places to See the Legendary Artist’s Work

Devorah Lauter, Police Arrest Suspect in Theft of Celtic Princess’ 2,500-year-old Gold Torque From French Museum, as National Security Plan Is Launched

Leigh Anne Miller, Spencer Tunick’s Latest Nude Action Celebrates Pride in the Canary Islands

Tessa Solomon, UNESCO Adds Contested West Bank Archaeological Site, Lebanese Castles to World Heritage List

Maximilíano Durón, ADAA Fair Names 63 Exhibitors for Inaugural Rebranded Edition in November

Andy Battaglia, Archaeologists Map Buried Sacred Precinct of Aztec Capital Tenochtitlan Under Mexico City

Daniel Cassady, V&A Workers Ballot for Strike Over Pay, Heatwave Conditions

Daniel Cassady, Detroit Institute of Arts Receives Gift of More Than 2,000 Modern and Contemporary Artworks from Silverman Estate

George Nelson, Possible Strike at the V&A Museum, a New American Pride-Focused Art Exhibition in DC, and More: Morning Links for July 27, 2026

ArtReview

Robert Barry, Oliver Beer’s Music for Paintings

From the Editors, Low Kee Hong named artistic director of 2028 Biennale of Sydney

From the Editors, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi announces opening date

From the Editors, Gunther von Hagens, whose exhibitions of preserved corpses attracted millions, 1945–2026

Cultured

Ella Martin-Gachot, ‘Process Is a Bitch’: Lyle Ashton Harris Gives Us an Unfiltered Studio Visit

Financial Times

Jackie Wullschläger, Richard Dadd — the singular Victorian painter caught between fantasy and delusion

Frieze

Andrew Maerkle, Why the Japanese Flag Matters to All of Us

Mathilde Walker-Billaude, Marilou Schultz Treats Weaving as a Technology

From the Editors, Betye Saar, Artist Whose Work Decried Black Oppression, Has Died Aged 99

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones, ‘He made Damien Hirst look like a sideshow’: the bloodsplash horrors of Gunther von Hagens

Roque Planas, Betye Saar, pioneering figure of Black arts movement, dies at 99

HypeArt

Keith Estiler, Felipe Pantone and Etai Turn Furniture Into Kinetic Art

Erin Ikeuchi, Charli XCX 'Brat' Portrait Joins London's National Portrait Gallery

Erin Ikeuchi, Tom Wesselmann's New York Studio is Opening to the Public for the First Time

Hyperallergic

Isa Farfan, Trump Orders Installation of Warning Signs Outside Smithsonian Museum

Anna Lee, Europeans Vote on New Leonardo da Vinci Banknote Design

Ekin Erkan, An Exhibition Lets Self-Taught Artists Speak for Themselves

Anna Lee, Tell Us, O Muse, of Elon Musk’s Racist AI Version of “The Odyssey”

EDITOR’S PICK: Ed Simon, The Smithsonian Is Not the President’s Museum: The Smithsonian's responsibility is to mount the exact sorts of exhibitions that so enrage Trump because they reflect best academic practice—or, more bluntly, because they tell the truth, says Ed Simon.

The Los Angeles Times

Carolina A. Miranda, Betye Saar, influential assemblage artist who ‘liberated’ Aunt Jemima, dies at 99

The New York Times

Travis Diehl and Brad Trone, He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of

Rick Rojas, An Atlanta Museum’s New Look at the Civil War Goes Beyond Relics

Noëlle de Leewuv, Beyond Amsterdam and Venice: 6 Delightful European Canal Cities

Jori Finkel, Betye Saar, Artist Who Upended Black Stereotypes, Dies at 99

Observer

Elisa Carollo, Rebecca Fine Launches Metis, a New Art Lender Powered by Winston Artory Group Data

Elisa Carollo, How a Protected Mediterranean Island Became One of France’s Most Compelling Art Destinations

Elisa Carollo, In Athens, Works from George Economou’s Art Collection Take Stock of the 21st Century

Gail Wegodsky, Art May Hold the Key to Reclaiming Focus in a Hyper-Accelerated World

Jasmine Lobe, Ocean Vuong On Asking Questions Without Answers

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, FOIA Documents: NLRB records in the Toledo Museum of Art guard discharge charge

Adam Schrader, Labor charge accuses Toledo Museum of Art of firing guards over union activity

Wallpaper

Cinthy Parthonnaud, Ukrainian art director Eugenia Skvarska shares her world for an intimate new publishing series

The Washington Post

Fred A. Bernstein, Betye Saar, artist who shattered stereotypes of Black women, dies at 99

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The Art Newspaper

Hadani Ditmars, Trove of art by Basquiat, Javier Calleja and others at play in mammoth Vancouver real estate lawsuit

From the Editors, Music, Fashion, Film—Photography? Charli xcx image acquired by London’s National Portrait Gallery

Gareth Harris, The Artists Information Company, the UK’s largest artists’ membership organisation, relaunches as Artists Now

Graciela Ibáñez, Earthquake damages 16th-century church in Peru

From the Editors, Music, Fashion, Film—Photography? Charli xcx image acquired by London’s National Portrait Gallery

Artforum

From the Editors, Buffalo AKG Art Museum Promotes Cathleen Chaffee and Jillian Jones to Co-Leaders

From the Editors, New Design Chosen for National Museum of Ecuador After Public Outcry

From the Editors, Cloe Piccoli To Serve As Artistic Director Of The miart Fair in Milan

From the Editors, FBI RETURNS LOOTED ARTIFACTS TO INDONESIA

Artnet

Ben Davis, Elon Musk’s Threat of an A.I.-Made ‘Odyssey’

Judd Tully, Influential Dealer Joe Helman, Who Shaped the Market for Contemporary Art, Dies at 89

Margaret Carrigan, Who Is the Artist Advising Trump? And Other Art World Matters

Katya Kazakina, Roy Lichtenstein’s Market Is on Fire. Here Comes a Whitney Show With Mega Loans

Min Chen, Colonel Sanders’s Personal Archive Is Served Up—and Other Collectibles News

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Buffalo AKG Charts a New Course With Co-Director Model—and More Industry Intel

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón, Thieves Snatch 2,500-Year-Old Celtic Gold Torque from French Museum in Broad Daylight

Daniel Cassady, Archie Rand’s Landmark Letter Paintings Acquired by Italy’s Modena FC Collection

Tessa Solomon, President Trump Orders Signs Installed Outside Smithsonian Warning Public of ‘Inaccurate Information’

Devorah Lauter, Forgotten in French Customs for Decades, a Chagall Finds New Home in Museum Near Swiss Border

Anne Doran, Artist Joyce Kozloff Reveals Herself to be Guerrilla Girl Lydia Popova

Leigh Anne Miller, BBC Series ‘Fake or Fortune?’ Discovers ‘Enormously Important’ Katherine Read Painting

Devorah Lauter, Buffalo AKG Promotes Two of Its Own to Co-Lead Art Museum

Maximilíano Durón, Controversial Gelman Collection to Inaugurate Spain’s New Faro Santander in September

Tessa Solomon, Venice Biennale President Calls EU Withdrawal of Funding Over Russia ‘Entirely Political, Certainly Not Legal’

Andy Battaglia, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Reveals Inaugural Film Program, Including Busby Berkeley Fantasias and Avant-Garde Shorts

Daniel Cassady, Universal Disputes Claim It Left Replica Viking Ship Used in ‘The Odyssey’ Damaged

ArtReview

EDITOR’S PICK - Michelle Santiago Cortés, The End of Research: Bad, regurgitated and even plagiarised information is pouring out of the internet and backwashing into institutional spaces, Michelle Santiago Cortés says.

From the Editors, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa appointed artistic director of Aichi Triennale 2028

From the Editors, Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet to curate Made in L.A. 2027

The Guardian

Lanre Bakare, Nearly 20 Georgia O’Keeffe works to go on display in UK for first time

Diane Taylor, V&A workers hold ballot to strike over pay and heatwave conditions

From the Editors, My advice to new Tate director – show us more art

Hyperallergic

Rhea Nayyar, Joyce Kozloff Reveals Herself as Guerrilla Girls Founding Member

Isa Farfan, Nvidia CEO Pours $75M Into San Francisco Art Campus

Anna Lee, Trump Installs Thomas Jefferson Statue in the Rose Garden

Liz Kim, Sable Elyse Smith Reveals the Shapes of State Violence

Max Blue, Emory Douglas’s Lifetime of Revolutionary Art

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel

The Los Angeles Times

Jonathan J. Cooper, Trump orders new signs outside Smithsonian claiming some exhibits are inaccurate

Observer

Christa Terry, MOCA Rising: How New York’s Chinese American Museum Is Redefining the American Canon

Elisa Carollo, In Sotheby’s Botero Show, Rare Works Meet a Resurgent Global Market

Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Brassaï, The Secret Signs of Paris” at Moderna Museet

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Seoul’s Kansong museum hands a pair of Qing dynasty lions back to China

Adam Schrader, Chris Sharp calls Art Basel and Frieze a ‘duopoly,’ opens a $6,000 fair down the street

Adam Schrader, Painter fills a Lower East Side gallery with the clothing of Iran’s imprisoned women

Adam Schrader, Denver Art Museum rescinds ‘overly broad’ confidentiality rule to settle union-drive charge

Adam Schrader, FOIA Documents: Denver Art Museum’s NLRB settlement file

The Wall Street Journal

Judith H. Dobrzynski, ‘Matisse’s “Femme au chapeau”: A Modern Scandal’ Review: The Legacy of a Revolutionary Portrait

Brian P. Kelly, ‘Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley’ Review: Forced Fun at the Museum of Arts and Design

Brian P. Kelly, ‘Roger Brown: Weathervane’ Review: A Chicago Imagist at GRAY New York

Tunku Varadarajan, Two Books on Francisco de Zurbarán: The Divine in Detail

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Art in America

John Yau, Bard’s Betty Parsons Retrospective Is a Revelation

The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris, Viking centre that loaned ship for ‘The Odyssey’ says that it has not been compensated by Universal for repairs

Mercedes Ezquiaga, Ecuador’s national museum picks new design for $100m home following pushback to original selection and resignations

Benjamin Sutton, Appeals court sides with Jeff Koons in copyright-infringement dispute over ‘Made in Heaven’ series

Martin Bailey, Philadelphia opens its Van Gogh Sunflowers display with a very rare loan from London’s National Gallery

Artforum

Qingyuan Deng, Can’t Forget Gossip Needs You: CFGNY at Amant

Elise Duryee-Browner, Ruminations from the Serpent Mound

From the Editors, New San Francisco Art College Receives $75 Million From NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

From the Editors, Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet to Curate Made in L.A. 2027

From the Editors, JEFF KOONS WINS APPEAL IN COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT CASE

From the Editors, Joyce Kozloff, Key Figure in Pattern & Decoration Movement, Comes Out as a Guerrilla Girl

Artnet

Judd Tully, Influential Dealer Joe Helman, Who Shaped the Market for Contemporary Art, Dies at 89

Andrew Russeth, A Guerrilla Girl Takes Off Her Mask—and Other Art World Matters

Min Chen, Forgotten Chagall Reemerges After 20 Years in Customs

Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, Wet Paint Hits the Beach: Nicolas Deshayes Alights at Lucy Chadwick’s Biarritz Gallery

Sonia Manalili and Ben Davis, Re-Air: The Magic of ‘The Artist’s Way’

ARTnews

Lilyanna D’Amato, 5 Ways to Celebrate Betye Saar’s 100th Birthday

Leigh Anne Miller, South Korean Museum Returns Two Qing Dynasty Lion Sculptures to China

Devorah Lauter, Leonardo da Vinci May Become the Face of Future Euro Banknotes

Anne Doran, FBI Returns Looted Cultural Artifacts to Indonesia

Tessa Solomon, The Knicks Championship Trophy Is Heading to the American Museum of Natural History

Andy Battaglia, Restoration of Fire-Ravaged Glasgow School of Art May Be Too Expensive

Maximilíano Durón, Made in L.A. 2027 to Be Curated by Hammer Chief Curator Michael Wellen and MOCA’s José Luis Blondet

Maximilíano Durón, Connecticut Antiques Dealer Pleads Guilty in $2.1 M. Theft Scheme

ArtReview

Jenny Wu, Notes from New York: Spectral Architecture

Maddie Hampton, Group Material’s Means to an End

From the Editors, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa appointed artistic director of Aichi Triennale 2028

From the Editors, Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet to curate Made in L.A. 2027

From the Editors, ArtReview Podcast | Episode 9: Jack White

Frieze

Tarini Sethi and Livia Russell, Work in Progress: Tarini Sethi

From the Editors, Oyster Clouds and Vodou Flags – Solo Presentations at Frieze London and Frieze Masters

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones, Bedlam dreamscapes, digital-age aliens and a summer pastoral – the week in art

Libby Brooks, Friday briefing: How disabled creators are challenging an ableist world

Hyperallergic

Anna Lee, 132 New York Artists Receive $903,000 in Grants

Anna Lee, Former V&A Academic Programs Head Accuses Museum of “Racist” Behavior

Lisa Yin Zhang and Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Meet the Curators of the Next “Made in LA”

Todd Fine, Mayor Mamdani Should Reclaim the City’s Jefferson Statue

Hrag Vartanian, Giant Wieners, Drag Queens, and Curtis Sliwa at “The Most American Pageant Ever!”

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Required Reading

The New York Times

Roslyn Sulcas, Upstairs, Downstairs, in a House Full of Spies

Zachary Small, The Artist and Filmmaker Helping Trump Reshape Washington

Maya Phillips, The Piece of Art That Inspired One of Theater’s Greatest Works

Observer

Elisa Carollo, Doug Aitken’s ‘Lightscape’ Turns the American Dream Into a Requiem

Jasmine Lobe, When Mother Nature Crashed the Parrish Midsummer Gala

Elisa Carollo, Kai Yoda’s Animist Paintings and the Beast Within

EDITOR’S PICK - Christa Terry, Observer’s 2026 August Art Fair Calendar: In the height of summer, there are loads of smaller, lesser-known and niche art fairs happening around the world.

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Photographer sues Mickalene Thomas and four galleries over 820 Ebony/Jet photos

Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Photographer’s copyright suit against Mickalene Thomas

Adam Schrader, Greenwich dealer pleads guilty to laundering money stolen from client’s estate

Adam Schrader, Court Documents: David L. Johnson’s plea agreement in the Greenwich estate-theft case

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Gareth Harris, Glasgow School of Art says £265m needed to restore destroyed Mackintosh building is ‘unaffordable’

Hadani Ditmars, Three Ancient Egyptian tombs with ‘significant’ inscriptions discovered in Saqqara necropolis

Sophia Kishkovsky, A lifetime of war: meet the 94-year-old Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Dubovyk

Anna Brady, Museum acquisitions round-up: a Kandinsky ‘Improvisation’ and a canvas by Minimalist pioneer Agnes Martin

Artforum

Nolan Kelly, In I Want Your Sex, Gregg Araki diagnoses straight malaise

Gracie Hadland, No More Broth: D’Ette Nogle’s R.I.P. for America

From the Editors, Federal Advisory Council to Slacken Rules Around Modifying Landmarks

From the Editors, Louvre Reopens Now-Empty Apollo Gallery Nine Months After Jewel Heist

From the Editors, Long-lost Historic Murals Uncovered in Chile

From the Editors, Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation Announces Major Gift

Artnet

Ben Davis, I Watched the Unhinged Anti-Smithsonian Congressional Hearing So You Don’t Have To

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jensen Huang Plows $75M Into Art School’s Rebirth—and Other Art World Matters

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jeff Koons Beats Copyright Infringement Claims in ‘Made in Heaven’ Lawsuit

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Tate Taps Jessica Morgan as Director, Ending Yearlong Search

ARTnews

Devorah Lauter, French Museum Launches ‘Wanted’ Campaign to Track Down 424 Artworks Looted by Nazis

Tessa Solomon, Jeff Koons Prevails in Appeal Over Copyright Challenge to ‘Made in Heaven’ Series

Leigh Anne Miller, The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery Reopens, This Time Without Any Crown Jewels

EDITOR’S PICK - Brian Boucher, If Dealers Want to Sell an Artwork to a Museum, They May Have to Find the Buyer Themselves: There are risks to museums’ increasing enmeshment in the marketplace, said one expert.

Anne Doran, Archaeologists Open Three New Kingdom Tombs at Egypt’s Saqqara Necropolis

Tessa Solomon, After $75 M. Gift, Shuttered California College of the Arts to Become School Named for Silicon Valley Billionaire

Maximilíano Durón, Getty Names Final Round of Grantees for Initiative Focused on Preserving Black Architects’ Work

Daniel Cassady, Gagosian to Stage Major René Magritte Exhibition During Frieze London

Daniel Cassady, Frank Gehry’s Seven-Ton Glass Desk Sells for $243,200, Setting Auction Record for His Design Work

Lilyanna D’amato, At The Momentary, Lucy Sparrow Transforms a Supermarket into a Felt Wonderland

ArtReview

Beatrice Loayza, ‘The Odyssey’: The Feelgood Film of the Year

Max Crosbie-Jones, Art at the Cambodian Beach Resort

From the Editors, Jessica Morgan appointed Director of Tate

Frieze

Sam Moore, A Group Show Looks at Intimacy in the Digital Age

The Guardian

Lyndsey Winship, Beyond the body: Wayne McGregor stretches the definition of dance at this year’s Venice Dance Biennale

Eddy Frankel, Ken Turner, the 100-year-old artist who flattened a Tesla with a tank: ‘I’m not a revolutionary, I’m a simple rebel’

Daniel Dylan Wray, ‘We didn’t care what the client wanted!’: Sheffield’s Designers Republic on their art for Aphex Twin, Pulp … and Pringles

Josh Nicholas, At greyhound life drawing, artists try to tackle complicated shapes

Hyperallergic

Isa Farfan and Anna Lee, Protesters Decry Chinatown Museum’s Acceptance of “Jail Money” at Town Hall

Rhea Nayyar, Tate Names Dia Leader Jessica Morgan as Next Director

John Yau, Beyond the Myth of Chico da Silva

Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Christine Borland, John Will, and Astrid Furnival

Olivia McEwan, You Can Love David Hockney and Still Hate His iPad Paintings

Isa Farfan, Artists Sue NYC Gallery The Hole for Nonpayment

Anna Lee, Juliana Huxtable and Mark Bradford in Major Gift to the Zimmerli Art Museum

The New York Times

Deborah Solomon, She Championed Pollock and Rothko. Now Her Art Is on the Museum Walls.

Blake Gopnik, Women of a Certain Swagger, and Their Art Visions

Ilaria Parogni, In Artwork Across the Ages, Odysseus’ Myth Keeps Entrancing Audiences

Alex Marshall, Fire Ravaged an Architectural Gem. It May Cost Too Much to Restore It.

Observer

Mary Gregory, The Women Who Built the Hamptons Art Scene

Adriana Marianella, The Sonic Frontier: Why Sound Is Becoming Culture’s New Favorite Medium

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, UNESCO lists Russian-occupied Chersonese as World Heritage in danger

Adam Schrader, Fifty buffalo puppets will roam Brooklyn and Manhattan streets in September

Adam Schrader, Police recover $60,000 in stolen paintings by Minneapolis artist Leon Hushcha

The Wall Street Journal

William Meyers, ‘Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography’ Review: Power Sources

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Edward Behrens, New look, new director: what’s next for Lisbon’s best museum?

From the Editors, Jessica Morgan to be new director of Tate

The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris, Jessica Morgan named new Tate director

Sophia Kishkovsky, European Union officially pulls €2m Venice Biennale funding over Russian participation

Andrew Ayers, Lisbon’s Museu Calouste Gulbenkian returns to its mid-century modern roots following major renovation

Jori Finkel, Yoko Ono’s most famous performance art piece cuts both ways in Los Angeles

Benjamin Sutton, Shuttered San Francisco arts school will become college co-named for Nvidia founder Jensen Huang

From the Editors, Artforum bids farewell to back-cover star in style

EDITOR’S PICK - Alexander Herman, Comment | How much can one artist take from another before it is copyright infringement?: An EU court’s decision in a case relating to the sampling of a Kraftwerk track will have implications across the arts

Artforum

Matt Saunders, Matt’s Message from Munich

Artnet

Min Chen, The Soft Power of Lucy Sparrow

Margaret Carrigan, Gagosian Plots Blockbuster Magritte Show in London

Min Chen, A New Hope for the Parthenon Marbles? And Other Art World Matters

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Louvre Reopens Apollo Gallery—but It Will Remain Empty

Jo Lawson-Tancred, E.U. Withdraws Venice Biennale Funding Over Russia’s Return

Min Chen, Frank Gehry’s Seven-Ton Desk Crushes Estimates, Sets Auction Record

ARTnews

Alex Greenberger and Maximilíano Durón, Jessica Morgan Named Top Director at Tate, Departing Dia After More Than a Decade

Emily Watlington, In Venice and Shanghai, Wallace Chan Presents a Vision of Buddhist Maximalism

Harrison Jacobs, The Online Backlash to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Misses the Point of the Epic Poem

Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, At the Art + Tech Summit, Christie’s Pins Its Future on AI Billionaires Who Aren’t Buying Art… Yet

Devorah Lauter, Trump Installs New Thomas Jefferson Bronze Sculpture in White House Rose Garden

Leigh Anne Miller, Katie Holmes Has a New Boyfriend—And He Is an Artist

Tessa Solomon, ‘Do You Love America?’: Smithsonian Museum Leader Grilled Over Gender, Diversity, Patriotism at Congressional Hearing

Anne Doran, Long-Lost Artworks by Chilean Muralist Julio Escámez Are Slowly Being Uncovered and Restored

Andy Battaglia, Hong Kong Palace Museum Partners With Islamic Civilization Center in Uzbekistan

Devorah Lauter, Trump-Backed Federal Council Aims to Reduce Protections of Historic Sites

Daniel Cassady, New York Sculptor Bet $100,000 on a Charlie Kirk Statue, Now No One Wants to Buy It

Devorah Lauter, Is Italy’s Famed Ancient ‘Warrior of Capestrano’ a Mussolini-Backed Fake?

Maximilíano Durón, EU Officially Suspends €2 M. Grant to Venice Biennale Over Russia’s Inclusion After Review

Maximilíano Durón, Pousette-Dart Foundation Announces Major Donation and Search for Next Director

ArtReview

Mark Rappolt, Sunhil Sippy’s Beautiful Wastelands

Euan Marshall, ‘Dark Horse’: The Bolsonaro Biopic You Have to See to Believe

From the Editors, Jessica Morgan appointed Director of Tate

From the Editors, EU confirms cancellation of Venice Biennale funding over Russian Pavilion

From the Editors, Christine Borland, artist who delved into medical histories, 1965–2026

Hyperallergic

Samantha Jensen, Sabri Sundos Faces Catastrophe With Flowers

Rhea Nayyar, How Jimothy the Raccoon Became a Hero of the Misfits

Julie Schneider, SVA Grads Make Art out of History’s Rubble

Natalie Weis, Helen Levitt Captured the Poetry of New York City

Isa Farfan, The Art Institute of Chicago to Cut Its Entire Custodial Staff

The New York Times

Travis Diehl, He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of

Alex Marshall, Tate Museums Tap Leader of Major U.S. Art Group as Next Director

Jason Farago, My 5 Favorite Places for Art in Venice

Observer

Dan Duray, At the Parrish Art Museum, Tony Bechara’s 60-Year Career Gets Its First Full Reckoning

Elisa Carollo, Tracing Universal Frequencies, Oliver Beer Makes Sound Visible

Elisa Carollo, The Must-See Shows in the Hamptons This Summer

Puck

Marion Maneker, Who Made the Art Market?

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Sarvy Geranpayeh, Head of V&A’s academic programmes resigned citing ‘racist’ and ‘culturally insensitive’ behaviours, letter reveals

Maev Kennedy, London mansion where ‘secret listeners’ spied on Nazi prisoners for intel opens as museum

Mercedes Ezquiaga, Renovation of Bolivia’s national archaeology museum gives repatriated treasures pride of place

Carlie Porterfield, The Armory Show reveals 230-gallery line-up and move to late September

Geoffrey Munn, A fresh appreciation of Victorian painter Richard Dadd, who was haunted by mental illness

Artforum

From the Editors, Ferran Barenblit Appointed Chief Curator of The 16th Shanghai Biennale

From the Editors, David Zwirner Exits New York’s Upper East Side

From the Editors, New York’s Armory Show Announces 2026 Exhibitors

EDITOR’S PICK - From the Editors, New Bill Aims to Protect Publicly Commissioned Art in Federal Buildings: A new bill, introduced on July 14th by Congressional Arts Caucus members Dina Titus (D-Nevada) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), is proposing the establishment of a procedure that would secure publicly commissioned art in federal buildings.

Artnet

Janelle Zara and Andrew Russeth, Goodbye, Upper East Side: David Zwirner Closes 69th Street Gallery

Ben Davis, Will Philly Protect Its Beloved Keith Haring? And Other Art World Matters

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Korean Court Rules in Bitter Dispute Over Patron’s 188 Alleged Art Loans

Jo Lawson-Tancred, London’s New House of Secrets Museum Reveals Lost Stories of Wartime Spies

Min Chen, Monumental Mural Erased by Pinochet Reemerges in Chile After 50 Years

Margaret Carrigan, Nvidia Chief’s Leather Jacket Smashes Estimates at Sotheby’s—and Other Art World Matters

ARTnews

Andy Battaglia, Christine Borland, Artist Who Researched Histories of Science and Medicine, Dies at 60

Maximilíano Durón, Vienna Will Get a New Art Fair in September, After Cancelation of City’s Main Two Fairs

Harrison Jacobs, V&A Museum’s Head of Academic Programs Quits Citing ‘Racist’ Behavior of Staff, Newly Revealed Letter Shows

Tessa Solomon, New York Gallery The Hole Sued by Artists for Nearly $50,000 in Outstanding Payments

Daniel Cassady, David Zwirner Closes Upper East Side Gallery, Consolidating Manhattan Footprint

Anne Doran, 2,500-Year-Old Necropolis Discovered Under Italian Pasta Factory

Daniel Cassady, After Days of Uncertainty, Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Arrives in Miami

ArtReview

Mark Rappolt, Sunhil Sippy’s Beautiful Wastelands

From the Editors, Eugenio Viola will head Naples’s Madre Museum

Frieze

From the Editors, Success Stories: Frieze Artist Award Winners

Dorrell Merritt, Hannah Perry’s Labour of Love

The Guardian

Hannah Clugston, Entangled and Woven review – exquisitely spun textiles that cross borders, culture and time

Jonathan Jones, Richard Dadd review – can his mental illness help explain these arresting, bizarre images?

Eddy Frankel, Trent Park House of Secrets review – the bugged stately home where German prisoners blabbed their secrets

Owen Hatherley, A Ruhr treat: can a giant pigeon and a pink basketball revive Germany’s depressed industrial heartland?

Hyperallergic

Joel Christensen, A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”

Anna Lee, New Museum’s Shiny New Building Leaks During Flash Floods

Rhea Nayyar, Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Exiled to the US

John Yau, The Sunflower Effect of Kyung-Me

Phillip Pyle, Activists Sue to Stop Frida Kahlo Works From Leaving Mexico

Isa Farfan, Trump Whitewashes George Washington’s Slavery History in New Display

The New York Times

Walker Mimms, When Listening to Music Was a Team Sport

Robin Pogrebin, White House Adds Jefferson Statue to the Rose Garden

Observer

John Scott Lewinski, The Hamptons Art Rush, Five Years Later: What COVID Taught Us

Elisa Carollo, Storm Ascher On (Re)Building Black Arts Infrastructure in the Hamptons

Jed Surio, The National Gallery Singapore Debuts Its First R-Rated Exhibition

Mary Gregory, Six Must-Visit Art Galleries in the Hamptons

Alina Cohen, Is Aspen the New Hamptons?

Candace Bushnell, Skipper and Mr. Marvelous Seek Hot Sex in Southampton Hedges

The Wall Street Journal

Isaac Sligh, ‘Baldwin Street’ Review: Family Album

The Washington Post

Philip Kennicott, At the National Gallery, the clearest view of America is in the mines

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Joe Ware, As Andy Burnham becomes the new UK prime minister, here are five key challenges facing his culture ministry

James Imam, Union threatens strike action over working conditions in Venice museums due to extreme temperatures

Gareth Harris, Cuban artist-activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara travels to Miami following end of prison sentence

Artforum

From the Editors, Japan’s New Flag-Desecration Law Raises Alarm for Artists, Museums

From the Editors, Soulages Painting Is The Subject Of A New Lawsuit By The Zeckendorf Family

From the Editors, Politicians Call for Investigation Into Potential ‘Interference’ on British Museum Labels

From the Editors, Murmurs Gallery In LA Shutters After Seven Years

From the Editors, Minneapolis Institute of Art Taps BMA’s Kevin Tervala to Lead Curatorial Affairs

From the Editors, Hauser & Wirth Announces Opening Show At New Location in Palo Alto

Artnet

Annika Olsen, At Carvalho, the Rhythms of Nature and Dance Take Center Stage

Jo Lawson-Tancred, James Cohan Gallery Rebrands Amid Ownership Shift—and More Industry Intel

Katya Kazakina, The Irresistible Rise of Massimiliano Gioni: Why the New Museum Is Betting on an Insider

Andrew Russeth, A New Culture Crackdown in Hong Kong—and Other Art Matters

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón, Armory Show Names Nearly 230 Galleries for 2026 Edition, Pushed to Late September

Tessa Solomon, Leaks Spotted in New Museum Gallery with WangShui Work as NYC Braces for Floods

Leigh Anne Miller, Congressional Representatives Introduce New Bill to Protect Public Artworks in Government Buildings

Devorah Lauter, French Officials Confirm Bayeux Tapestry Undamaged by Controversial Trip to British Museum

Tessa Solomon, Shanghai Auction Executives Sentenced in Major Fraud Case as Industry Scrutiny Intensifies

Daniel Cassady, Strong First Half Numbers Confirm That the Auction Houses Have Changed, Even If the Rest of the Art Market Is Still Catching Up

Harrison Jacobs, Democrats Move to Shield Landmarks, Russian Artist’s Refugee Status, and More

Anne Doran, A Mural at Ancient City of Calakmul May Be the Oldest Known Image of Maya Hero Juun Ajaw

ArtReview

Ilaria Maria Sala, The Otherworldly Longings of Threads and Yarns

Euan Marshall, ‘Dark Horse’: The Bolsonaro Biopic You Have to See to Believe

Mia Stern, Marijn van Kreij’s Frames of Reference

Financial Times

Simon Schama, How Ana Mendieta made land art her own

Enuma Okoro, The art of joy, and how to learn it

Saul David, Trent Park, where Nazi officers relaxed — and let vital information slip

Lee Sharrock, Inside artist Koen Vanmechelen’s temple of friendship — to a tapir

Ariella Budick, Why the OGs of pop art still outshine today’s pretenders

Frieze

Qinyuan Deng, Must-See: Eliza Douglas Turns to the Haunted Unconscious

The Guardian

Grace Holliday, ‘As individuals, we keep ourselves in cages, without connecting to others’: Jibak Bhattacharya’s best phone picture

Carlos Mureithi, ‘We are preserving a tradition’: how Ghana’s sensationalist film posters became collectible art

Hyperallergic

Matt Stromberg, A Living Memorial to Palestinian Activist Alex Odeh Takes Flight

John Yau, Trevor Winkfield’s Cheerfully Sinister Worlds

Rhea Nayyar, Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Fatally Stabbing NYC Vogue Dancer

Emiline Smith, Zendaya’s Earrings Are Part of a Much Bigger Problem

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel

The New York Times

Michael Kimmelman and Will Warasila, A Spectacular Theodore Roosevelt Library Deep in the Badlands

Observer

EDITOR’S PICK: Christa Terry, Why the Legend of the Montauk Monster Will Never Die: “The real debate is not over whether artists should use A.I., but over what kinds of use are legitimate.”

Elisa Carollo, How Artists Are Using A.I. and Where They Are Drawing the Line

Dan Duray, Jay and Ricki Blakesberg On Becoming Stewards of the Grateful Dead’s Visual History

Chenoa Baker, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair Asks What It Means to Sustain an Artistic Life

Elisa Carollo, At Christie’s Art+Tech Summit 2026, the State of A.I., New Wealth and the Art Market’s Next Chapter

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Artists sue The Hole and Kathy Grayson over unpaid sale proceeds

Adam Schrader, Weekly Recap: Urgent Matter’s mold problem, NPR interview and new print edition

Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Um v. The Hole

Adam Schrader, MTA says the First Amendment bars it from pulling Museum of Sex bus ads

Adam Schrader, Kinston police charge former arts council director with money laundering

Adam Schrader, Getty Images abandons Shutterstock merger over U.K. divestiture demand

Adam Schrader, What We Skipped: A chicken-finger mural, a burning cathedral and more

Adam Schrader, Petrides show at center of Chicago lawsuit opens in Berlin in September

Adam Schrader, Getty Images abandons Shutterstock merger over U.K. divestiture demand

Adam Schrader, Petrides show at center of Chicago lawsuit opens in Berlin in September

Adam Schrader, Colby Museum show asks how U.S. became an empire as country marks 250 years

Adam Schrader, Bragg returns Nayarit figure seized from the Met as two related sculptures stay on view

Adam Schrader, Why America funds data centers but cuts the arts

Adam Schrader, Ukrainian band DakhaBrakha brings living archive of folk tradition to Brooklyn

Adam Schrader, Hong Kong museum bosses got raises as district that runs them opened $1B borrowing program

Wallpaper

Jonathan Bell, Britain’s motorway infrastructure serves as subject matter for artist Jen Orpin’s monograph

Hannah Silver, In London, play mini golf designed by Miranda July and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

Hannah Silver, The Prix Pictet's next photography prize will explore the jungle

Osman Can Yerebakan, This New York artist uses real human blood to interrogate sexuality, belonging and baseball fandom

Wall Street Journal

From the Editors, Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of July 19

Judith H. Dobryzinski, ‘The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy’ Review: Exhibit of an Overshadowed Culture

From the Editors, America 250 Calendar: Ways to Celebrate the Nation Across the Nation

Judith H. Dobryzinski, ‘The Virgin of Cerro Rico’: Mother of Jesus, Mother of Earth

Brian P. Kelly, ‘Zizipho Poswa: iMbewu (The Seed)’ Review: Sculpting the Story of Xhosa Culture

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Art in America

Emily Watlington, How the Surrealists Psyopped the Gestapo and Otherwise Fought Fascism

The Art Newspaper

Allison C. Meier, ‘A poem to the prairie’: new life for architecture as sculpture

James Imam, Italy returns 27 historical objects to Mexico after investigations by art hit squad

Helen Stoilas, US congress introduces bill to protect public art in federal buildings targeted by Trump administration

John-Paul Stonard, How Constable country is becoming a hub of artistic innovation once again

Elena Goukassian, Legionella detected in cooling towers at the Metropolitan Museum, Cooper Hewitt and Jewish Museum

Louisa Buck, ‘The Climate Clock is ticking’: new art trail in Finland shines a light on rapid Arctic warming

J.S. Marcus, Detroit Institute of Arts director finds missing Velázquez painting

Martin Bailey, The ten most expensive Van Gogh paintings

Artforum

Nobutaka Aozaki, Nobu’s Flight From Basel

Paris J.B. Reid, Too Hot The Eye of Heaven Shines: PARIS J.B REID TAKES LONDON HEATWAVE

From the Editors, “Iran War Participation Trophy” Mocking Trump Provokes The White House’s Ire

From the Editors, Renowned German Photobook Publisher Steidl Faces Bankruptcy

From the Editors, Jacolby Satterwhite Receives $25k Artists Living with Cancer Grant

From the Editors, Clark Art Institute Reveals Plans for Its New Wing by Selldorf Architects

Artnet

EDITOR’S PICK - Adam Lindemann, The End of the Mega Gallery: ‘OK, Pace had too many artists on their roster, so they cleaned house. Better late than never, I suppose.’

Andrew Russeth, A New Culture Crackdown in Hong Kong—and Other Art Matters

Sonia Manalili and Ben Davis, Welcome to the Society of the Psyop

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Luke Skywalker’s $3.75 Million Lightsaber Sets New ‘Star Wars’ Record

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Finally, a London Fair Based on Merit—and Other Art World Matters

ARTnews

Shantay Robinson, In His Beaded Portraits of Black Luminaries, Felandus Thames Wants to Spark Curiosity

Maximilíano Durón, LEGO Partners with Vienna’s Belvedere Museum on 4,000-Piece Set of Klimt’s ‘The Kiss’

Andy Battaglia, Manhattan District Attorney Repatriates Three Antiquities to Mexico

Tessa Solomon, UK Politicians Call For Investigation of British Museum’s Removal of ‘Palestine’ from Display

Chris Gardner, Mark Hamill’s ‘Star Wars’ Lightsaber Breaks Auction Record with $3.7M. Sale

Brian Boucher, Bavaria Revamps Procedures for Evaluating Restitution Claims for Nazi-Looted Art

Maximilíano Durón, New Lawsuit Alleges Stolen Pierre Soulages Painting Sold at Christie’s as Part of Weis Collection

Alex Greenberger, Steidl, the Art World’s Go-To Photobook Publisher, Faces Insolvency Proceedings in Germany

Maximilíano Durón, LA’s Murmurs Gallery, Known for Its Eye for Rising Talent, to Close After Seven Years

Alex Greenberger, Pat Oleszko Wins Whitney Biennial’s $100,000 Bucksbaum Award

ArtReview

Lewis Gordon, How Videogames Feed the War Machine

From the Editors, Ferran Barenblit to curate 16th Shanghai Biennale

From the Editors, Jacolby Satterwhite wins inaugural Artists Living With Cancer Grant

From the Editors, Photobook publisher Steidl faces insolvency proceedings

Frieze

From the Editors, Work in Progress: Chase Hall

Zoë Hopkins, The Political Heat of Pope.L’s Works on Paper

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones, Hockney’s Pop pals, Warhol’s American republic and Linder punks Blackpool – the week in art

Louis Staples, ‘I’m not into leather at all!’: John Wood on privately photographing Glasgow’s gay underground, and the comparisons with Robert Mapplethorpe

Jonathan Jones, Madelon Vriesendorp review – sex-crazed visions of skyscrapers copulating

Hyperallergic

Valentina Di Liscia, Pat Oleszko Wins $100K Whitney Biennial Prize

Rhea Nayyar, Artist’s Planned Monument to Charlie Kirk Gets Trolled Online

Anna Lee, Manhattan DA’s Office Returns Three Antiquities to Mexico

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Required Reading

Isa Farfan, Trump Shrinks Utah National Monuments by 90%

Claudia Ross, The Artists Working in Velvet, Amethyst, and Relics

Anthony Majanlahti, Four Centuries Later, We Still Don’t Get Caravaggio

The New York Times

Emily LaBarge, The Burning, Bleeding, Breathing Art of Ana Mendieta

Jason Farago, My 5 Favorite Places for Art in Venice

The New Yorker

Hilton Als, Peter Hujar’s Search for Secrets

From the Editors, Paul Thek’s Eclectic Art

Observer

Yana Talke, Collector Carl Thoma Has No Holy Grails and No Regrets

Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Björk, Echolalia” and “James Merry, Metamorphlings” at the National Gallery of Iceland

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Affordable Art Fair’s fellowship gives emerging galleries a subsidized start

Adam Schrader, Affordable Art Fair names Camp Z its newest fellowship gallery

Adam Schrader, Palestine art coalition plans Venice protest against U.S. ambassador’s yacht visit

Vogue

Grace Edquist, The Perfectly Peculiar Art of Gladys Nilsson

Wallpaper

Jonathan Bell, One of the world’s most famous paintings gets the Lego treatment: Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss

Sophie Axon, In Aarhus, the history of punk is told through the body

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Art in America

Eliza Goodpasture, A Rousing Tate Modern Retrospective Refuses to Reduce Ana Mendieta to a Tragic Figure

The Art Newspaper

Carlie Porterfield, James Cohan Gallery becomes Norr Cohan as founders step back

Gabriella Angeleti, Jacolby Satterwhite awarded inaugural Artists Living with Cancer Grant

Gabriella Angeleti, Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey receives gift of 70 modern and contemporary works

Karen Chernick, New York exhibition explores how the Wiener Werkstätte preserved the human touch of handcraft

Artforum

From the Editors, James Cohan Rebrands As Norr Cohan, With Partner David Norr As Sole Owner

From the Editors, Sotheby’s Records All-Time High $4.4 Billion in Sales for First Half of 2026

From the Editors, A T. Rex Fossil Sells For $50 Million To A Mystery Bidder At Sotheby’s Auction

From the Editors, Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Missing After Jail Sentence

Artnet

Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, Cory Arcangel Hits Massive Techno Festival, Painter-Bassist Ana Cristina Sells Out New York Debut, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip

Min Chen, The Viking Ship in ‘The Odyssey’ Is More Than a Movie Prop

EDITOR’S PICK - Adam Levine and Rachel Johnston, Museums Should Look to the Art Market for Talent: Institutional insularity could be holding the field back, two experts argue.

ARTnews

Brian Boucher, Clark Art Institute Unveils its Massive Aso Tavitian Gift, To Be Housed in a Brand-New Wing: ‘Any Curator or Director’s Dream’

Devorah Lauter, Trump Skewered in Satirical ‘Iran War Participation Trophy’ Art Installation

Maximilíano Durón, Artist Residencies in London and the Hudson Valley: Industry Moves for July 15, 2026

Leigh Anne Miller, Vija Celmins and Denis Villeneuve Are the 2026 Honorees of LACMA’s Glitzy Art+Film Gala

Tessa Solomon, At Management Gallery, Grotesque Art Evolves for the Doomscroll Era

Andy Battaglia, Fresh Insights into China’s Famed Sanxingdui Illuminate Ancient Trade Networks

Harrison Jacobs, Jacolby Satterwhite Receives Inaugural Artists Living With Cancer Grant From Rema Hort Mann Fund and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

Brian Boucher, Rutgers’s Zimmerli Art Museum Receives 70-Work Gift, Including Pieces by Mark Bradford, Nicole Eisenman, and Lee Friedlander

Tessa Solomon, Bacteria Linked to Legionnaires’ Disease Detected at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Daniel Cassady, Hauser & Wirth Expands to Silicon Valley with New Gallery in Palo Alto

Sarah Douglas, James Cohan Gallery to Become Norr Cohan as Partner David Norr Assumes Sole Ownership

ArtReview

Illaria Maria Sala, Hung Hsien’s Hazy Legacy

Gaby Cepeda, Patricio Morocho’s Demolition Acts

Financial Times

Joe Miller, The Manhattan prosecutor fighting the trade in stolen antiquities

Frieze

Sofia Hallström, The Anatomy of Lindsey Mendick’s Love

Sean Burns, Must-See: The Dog at Prem Sahib’s Door

Paul Han, The Unfinished Lessons of China’s Children’s Palaces

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones, Madelon Vriesendorp review – sex-crazed visions of skyscrapers copulating

Miranda Bryant, Edvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory: the bitter truth behind the Freia frieze

Eddy Frankel, Backyard Biennial: East review – this morose and meaningless exhibition gave me a migraine

Florence Hallett, Richard Dadd: the painter whose fantastical vision was unconfined by his 43 years in an asylum

Hyperallergic

Isa Farfan, Cape Town Gallery Accused of Withholding Pay and Artworks

Jennifer Samet, Beer With a Painter: Keltie Ferris

Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Bruno Lucchesi, Pat Oliphant, and Edward Lucie-Smith

Poppy DeltaDawn, How a Basket Empire Wove the Myth of America

Rhea Nayyar, Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta Glasses Campaign

Benjamin Moser, The Many Lives of Frederic Edwin Church

The New York Times

Deborah Solomon, Duchamp Gave Up Art for Chess. At MoMA, He Inspires a New Gambit.

Holland Cotter, Finding the Great America, 250 Years On. The Real One.

Michael Kimmelman, A Spectacular Theodore Roosevelt Library Deep in the Badlands

Rachel Sherman, 9 Art Shows to Catch Before They Close This Summer

Observer

Elisa Carollo, Trophy Collections and Luxury Spending Powered Christie’s and Sotheby’s Record Half-Year Results

Elisa Carollo, ArtMeta: When Digital Art Enters the Canon, Tech Millionaires Will Enter the Market

Xinyi Ye, Ron Arad’s Unconstrained Objects and the Mind Behind Them

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Rosewood invites Dallas hotel-room fair to London’s former U.S. Embassy

Adam Schrader, San Jose’s Vietnamese monument ‘Thank You America’ stolen in brazen heist

Adam Schrader, Italian artist allegedly sells apartment to fund his Charlie Kirk monument

The Wall Street Journal

Dominic Green, ‘War Craft’ Review: Battlefield Art at the Fitzwilliam Museum

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The Art Newspaper

Scarlet Cheng, Gus the T-Rex sells for a record $50.1m at Sotheby’s

Gareth Harris, V&A reveals 2027 exhibitions, ranging from South Asian contemporary art and textiles to punk music and fashion

Catherine Hickley, Bavaria approves creation of Nazi loot panel and independent entity for provenance research

Eve M. Kahn, Comment | A view from the top of Manhattan’s famed Municipal Building

EDITOR’S PICK - Anna Brady, Christie’s and Sotheby’s 2026 half year results: trophy lots and luxury goods fuel rebound: Private sales and flexible financing arrangements are also helping the businesses shore up their bottom lines

Artforum

Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Regards and Earthly Delights

From the Editors, Three Robert Rauschenberg Sculptures Have Been Donated To The Tate And National Galleries Of Scotland

From the Editors, Suspects in Louvre Heist Say They Were Recruited by a ‘Mastermind’ Who Wasn’t Pleased With Their Efforts

From the Editors, Trump Slashes Millions of Acres from Utah National Monuments

From the Editors, Nazi-Looted Painting Salvaged From Amsterdam Rubbish Pile Is Set To Be Returned

Artnet

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Gus the T. Rex Nets $50 Million as Fossil Fever Rages

Min Chen, Christie’s $4.5 Billion First-Half Haul Is Its Biggest in Five Years

Margaret Carrigan, The Battle for the Smithsonian Board—and Other Art World Matters

Margaret Carrigan, Sotheby’s Posts $4.4 Billion in First-Half Sales, a New Record

ARTnews

Daniel Cassady, Christie’s Reports $4.5 B. in Sales, Strongest First Half in Five Years

Maximilíano Durón, Lyndon J. Barrois Sr.’s Miniature Portraits of World Cup History Explore Moments of Joy and Political Controversy

Harrison Jacobs, Superblue Teams Up With Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre to Bring Immersive Art to Mumbai

Brian Boucher, Zendaya Gets an Earful of ‘Orientalist’ Complaints for Wearing Ancient Iranian Earrings to ‘Odyssey’ Promo Amid US-Iran War

Brian Boucher, Frieze Seoul’s Public Programs Include a Hunt for Hidden Coins and a Place to Talk About Climate Change

Alex Greenberger, Dealer Dominique Lévy Says She Received Death Threats After Denouncing Post–October 7 Letter in Artforum

Brian Boucher, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani Announces Citywide Mural Project to Commemorate Historic FIFA World Cup

Leigh Anne Miller, Hieroglyphs Inscribed on Wall of Ancient Building Reveal Name of Mayan Astronomer for the First Time

Andy Battaglia, Man Charged in Theft of More Than 600 Artifacts from UK’s Bristol Museum

Daniel Cassady, Sotheby’s Reports Record $4.4 B. First Half as Private Sales and Luxury Fuel Growth

Daniel Cassady, Sotheby’s $50.1 M. T. Rex Sale Sets New Record as Scientists Scowl

George Nelson, Dinosaur Dealer Sal Aaron Discusses the Fossil Market as Sotheby’s Sells T. Rex for Record $50 M.

Alex Greenberger, Trump Slashes Size of National Monument Rich with Ancient Rock Art

ArtReview

Bex Wade, Sex, Clubs and the Politics of Being Seen

Chris Fite-Wassilak, Why Should We Look at Park Chan-Kyong’s Paintings?

From the Editors, Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is missing after jail sentence ends

Frieze

From the Editors, Visions of the Future at Frieze Seoul 2026

The Guardian

David Smith, ‘People are picking the dumbest fights’: the tortured history of America’s culture wars

Lucy Knight, ‘The world wasn’t ready for me’: Del LaGrace Volcano on photographing S&M scenes, leather-clad lesbians and a drag king self-portrait

Janelle Zara, ‘A frightening piece to perform’: can Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece still shock?

Joanna Moorhead, Enid Marx: the maverick textile artist who changed tube commutes for ever

Hyperallergic

Renée Reizman, For Michael Asher, the Museum Was the Medium

Tulsa Kinney, Meet the Doyennes of Ecosexuality

Rhea Nayyar, Mural Damaged in Break-In at Harriet Tubman Museum

Aaron Short, Connecticut’s Artists Have Been Hiding in Plain Sight

Isa Farfan, Former High Museum Executive Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

Imani Williford, Contending With Fashion Photography’s Artifice

The Los Angeles Times

Tara Anne Dalbow, Enough about her legacy. At 100, Betye Saar just wants to keep making art in L.A.

By Patrick J. McDonnell and Cecilia Sánchez Vidal, The battle over Frida Kahlo: Activists sue to keep her art from leaving Mexico

MOMUS

Rosily Roberts, Hope Lies in the Universe: Alison Pebworth on Americanitis

The New York Times

Zachary Small, Why Did a Major Museum’s Bong Show Go Up in Smoke?

Zachary Fine, Michelangelo’s Forgotten Renaissance Masterpiece

Julia Jacobs and Zachary Small, T. Rex Fossil Sells for $50.1 Million, Putting the King Back On Top

Brian Seibert, Can an Arts Lab Created by a Visionary See a Future Without Him?

Observer

Alai Ganuza, The Flood of A.I.-Generated Images Will Make Human-Made Art More Precious, Not Less

Elisa Carollo, Sean Green Built the Gallery World’s First CRM. Now He’s Building Its First A.I. Agents.

Elisa Carollo, Sébastien Borget Is Expanding Digital Art’s Reach Without Softening Its Ambition

Elisa Carollo, Can Magnus Resch’s A.I. App Crack the Art Market’s Transparency Problem?

OCULA

Baya Simons, Real Life in America, Through the Eyes of Alice Neel

Imogen Lees, In Brussels, Tender Sculpture Celebrates Ireland’s EU Presidency

Zian Chen, Mona, Tasmania’s Most Controversial Museum, to Open Outpost in Bangkok

Naomi Rea, Louvre Heist Suspects: ‘We Could Have Taken More’

Philippa Kelly, Erick Alejandro Hernández, Painter Who Explores Grief and Allegory, Wins $20,000 DAG Prize

Puck

Marion Maneker, Paul Klee’s Angels and Demons

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Tina Spiro, key artist at Minimalism’s advent, seeks to affirm her legacy

The Wall Street Journal

Julie Brener Davich, The Most Expensive Dinosaur Just Sold for $50.1 Million

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Apollo Magazine

Oliver Cox, The bachelors who left their pads to the nation

Charles Saumarez Smith, How Vanbrugh built a classical folly in a Tudor church

Art Asia Pacific

Kalani Ko, Massimiliano Gioni Named Director of New Museum

Bea Belen-Ferrer, The Coconut Knows: Martha Atienza at Silverlens

The Art Newspaper

Hadani Ditmars, Ancient Egyptian grave with colourful murals discovered in Luxor

Gareth Harris, Robert Rauschenberg foundation donates three sculptures to shared Tate and National Galleries of Scotland collection

Constanza Ontiveros Valdés, Remembering Valerie Brathwaite, the Caracas-based Trinidadian sculptor of singular abstractions

Garry Shaw, Name of ancient Maya astronomer-mathematician deciphered for the first time

Elena Goukassian, Arch Connelly, beloved mainstay of the 1980s East Village art scene, steps into the spotlight

Hannah Clugston, Ana Mendieta’s ‘Neolithic art’ recreated for major Tate Modern survey

From the Editors, What happened when Lucian Freud met Kate Moss? Nothing much, according to new film

Artforum

Jonathan Odden, Before Friend.com, There Was Winkie: On Tech Hype in End Times

From the Editors, Acclaimed Iranian Feminist Writer Shahrnush Parsipur Dies at 80

From the Editors, ICOM Formally Adopts New Code Of Ethics For Museums

From the Editors, Furor Erupts Over Design Choice for New National Museum of Ecuador

From the Editors, Artists Accuse Cape Town–Based SMAC Gallery Of Withholding Artworks And Payments

Artnet

Kenny Schachter, Roberta Smith Made Kenny Schachter Cry. Twice. And He Still Sings Her Praises

Min Chen, Louvre Heist’s Mastermind Craved More, Allegedly—and Other Art World Matters

Margaret Carrigan, Can Art Make You Healthier? These 10 Artists Think So

Min Chen, Australia’s Museum of Old and New Art Plans Bangkok Branch

ARTnews

Daniel Cassady, Felix Art Fair Overhauls Its Format, Emphasizing Solo, Two-Artist Booths and Poolside Experience

Alex Greenberger, Rauschenberg Foundation Gives Works to Tate, National Galleries of Scotland

Daniel Cassady, Christie’s Turns to the World Cup After Record-Breaking Jim Irsay Sales

Maximilíano Durón, Nazi-Looted Painting Found Decades Ago Among Amsterdam’s Street Trash Will Be Returned to Jewish Dealer’s Heirs

Daniel Cassady, Giant Shipping Container Sculpture at Montauk Art Space The Ranch Draws Municipal Fire

Brian Boucher, High Museum of Art’s Former COO Pleads Guilty to Embezzling More Than $600,000

Anne Doran, Archaeologists Uncover Previously Unknown Tomb of Ancient Egyptian High Official

Tessa Solomon, Louvre Jewel Heist Suspects Claim ‘Mysterious Sponsor’ Recruited Them

Andy Battaglia, Design for New National Museum of Ecuador Prompts Petition Calling for Reconsideration

Harrison Jacobs, Whistleblowers Accuse Kennedy Center of Awarding No-Bid Contracts for $257 M. Trump-Led Renovation

ArtReview

Alice Godwin, How Many Times Does Marina Abramović Die?

Chris Fite-Wassilak, Why Should We Look at Park Chan-Kyong’s Paintings?

From the Editors, Edward Lucie-Smith, poet and critic for ArtReview, 1933–2026

BOMB

Charlotte Youkilis, Alex Westfall by Charlotte Youkilis

Cultured

Georgina Adam, The Louvre’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

Sophia Shyer, Even 25 Years After His Death, Manuel Álvarez Bravo Is Still Revealing New Work

Sophia Shyer, 9 Cultural Events and Exhibitions in Aspen You Can’t Miss This Summer

Family Style

Qianfan Gu, System Override

Frieze

Simone Molinari, The Show That Fits Inside a Cardboard Box

The Guardian

Joanna Moorhead, Enid Marx: the maverick textile artist who changed tube commutes for ever

Hyperallergic

Jerry Elengical, How the Children’s Art Carnival in Harlem Nurtured Generations

Isa Farfan, “Pam the Bird” Graffiti Stirs Controversy in Melbourne

Coco Fusco, Where Is Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara?

Rhea Nayyar, Suspects Shed Light on “Mastermind” Behind Louvre Heist

Julia Curl, Should We See Peter Hujar’s Contact Sheets?

Divya Mehra, The Album Art Music Left Behind

Observer

Elisa Carollo, Faig Ahmed Weaves Azerbaijan’s Past Into Its Future in Venice

Jordan Riefe, In DATALAND, Refik Anadol Has Built a Museum That Learns From Its Audience

EDITOR’S PICK - Elisa Carollo, UNESCO’s A.I. Report Considers How Technology Can Serve Culture: Artificial intelligence, it says, will expand access to culture, protect heritage and open new artistic possibilities—provided that human rights, diversity and creativity remain central to its governance.

Elisa Carollo, At the Grand Palais, Laure Prouvost Translates Quantum Physics Into Something You Can Feel

Daniel Grant, Artificial Intelligence Is Rewriting the Rules of Art Valuation

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The Art Newspaper

From the Editors, ‘It’s not my best work’: Anish Kapoor sizes up his biggest-ever sculpture

Artforum

Akira Ikezoe, AKIRA IKEZOE ON AMOS TUTUOLA, FINDING JOY IN DARK TIMES, AND ANIME MUSIC

Katherine Rochester, Saodat Ismailova, Saodat Ismailova on Ancient Forests and Collective Hallucinations

From the Editors, Bayeux Tapestry Arrives in England for First Time in Nearly 1,000 Years

From the Editors, Buckingham Palace Shocks with Salon-Style Hang

From the Editors, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Defends Institution Against White House Criticism

From the Editors, Bacteria Causing Legionnaires’ Disease Discovered in Guggenheim Cooling Tower

Artnet

Margaret Carrigan, Results at the Big Three Auction Houses Tell Two Different Stories

Min Chen, Joseph Beuys Turned Groceries Into Artworks. Conserving Them Is Complicated

Ben Davis, Raphael Is the Met’s Post-Pandemic Prince! And Other Art World Matters

Andrew Russeth, Buy This Book! Arthur Jafa, Richard Prince Get Candid in Prada Tome

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Letters by Forgotten Surrealist Jacqueline Lamba Reveal Love Affair With Frida Kahlo

Jo Lawson-Tancred, New York Investigators Return $600,000 Worth of Looted Art—and More Art Industry News

Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan, Mid-Year Market Review

Min Chen, Heritage Auctions Posts Record $1.4 Billion Mid-Year Total, as Collectibles Market Roars

ARTnews

Brian Boucher, Chua Mia Tee, Leading Singaporean Social Realist Artist, Has Died at 94

Anne Doran, British Archeologists Find 5,800-Year-Old Neolithic Monument in Suffolk

Daniel Cassady, Heritage Auctions’ Record $1.41 B. First Half Suggests Collecting Is Getting Broader

Leigh Anne Miller, US Returns Two Looted Bronze Buddha Statues, Sold by Disgraced Antiquities Dealer Douglas Latchford, to Indonesia

Andy Battaglia, British Museum Teams With BTS as Part of Citywide Art Trail Timed to the Group’s World Tour

Brian Boucher, Italian Americans Say a 2020 Zohran Mamdani Tweet About a Christopher Columbus Monument Shows ‘Seething Hatred’

Harrison Jacobs, ICOM Adopts New Museum Code of Ethics Taking Aim at AI, Colonialism, and Climate Change

Daniel Cassady, Legionella Bacteria Found in Guggenheim Cooling Tower as Outbreak Plagues Upper East Side

Alex Greenberger, Late Swiss Businessman’s Treasure-Filled Modern Art Collection Faces Bitter Legal Battle

Brian Boucher, Artists and Former Staffers Accuse Cape Town Gallery SMAC of Nonpayment and Withholding Artworks

Devorah Lauter, Bayeux Tapestry Makes Historic Arrival at London’s British Museum in the Dead of Night

Brian Boucher, A Jersey Worn by Knicks Point Guard Jalen Brunson in NBA Finals Fetches $1 M. at Sotheby’s

ArtReview

Hugo Hagger, Nancy Lupo’s Dream House

From the Editors, Museum of Old and New Art to open space in Bangkok

From the Editors, Hauser & Wirth cleared of Russian sanctions charge

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones, Ana Mendieta review – were she still alive she’d be at the forefront of art in this century

Lanre Bakare, New LS Lowry exhibition aims to demolish ‘naive and uncultured’ myth

Hyperallergic

Erin L. Thompson, Why Do So Many Museums Hold a Convicted Antiquity Dealer’s Treasures?

Isa Farfan, Legionella Bacteria Found in Cooling Tower at NYC Guggenheim

Rhea Nayyar, Artists Memorialize Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Houston Man Killed by ICE

Bridget Quinn, The Story of Printmaking Is the Story of Democracy

Gregory Volk, The Unruly Ceramic Beings of Kathy Butterly

Rhea Nayyar, Which Artworks Will Grace the High Line’s Plinth Next?

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel

The New York Times

Julia Halperin, At 84, This Radical Artist is a Dior Muse

Penelope Green, Yaacov Agam, Who Made Kinetic, Kaleidoscopic Art, Dies at 98

The New Yorker

Zachary Fine, The Met Turns Orientalism Inside Out

Observer

EDITOR’S PICK - Daniel Grant, Inside the Art Schools Building Courses Around A.I.’s Creative Potential: Many art educators see the integration of A.I. as a natural evolution of studio practice rather than a threat to traditional methods.

Gameli Hamelo, For Collector Marie-Cécile Zinsou, Building a Museum in Benin Was Just the Beginning

Elisa Carollo, At Lisson Gallery, Kelly Akashi Gives Resilience Form

Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Deep Cuts, Block Printing Across Cultures” at LACMA

Christa Terry, Curator Samantha Katz and Architect Alan Paukman’s Festival Blueprint for the Post-Spectatorship Era

Elisa Carollo, The Future Perfect’s Laura Young Makes the Case for Design as the Next Collecting Frontier

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, East Hampton authorizes legal action against The Ranch over shipping container sculpture

Adam Schrader, ICOMOS posts surplus on one-off revenue as subsidies shrink

Adam Schrader, Lindsey Graham, senator who voted against arts funding for three decades, dies at 71

Adam Schrader, Dubai announces plans for Museum of Digital Art and its digital twin

Adam Schrader, Eastman Museum’s $400 photo fee stands a month after listening pledge

The Wall Street Journal

Vanessa H. Larson, ‘India’s Great Mughals: Art, Power, and Opulence’ Review: An Age of Lavishness

Brian P. Kelly, Fairfield Porter’s Everyday Beauty at the Art Students League

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Art in America

Ara H. Merjian, The Original Antifa Fought the Nazis. A New Art Exhibition Asks What’s Next

The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris, Bayeux Tapestry arrives at the British Museum in London after secret English Channel crossing

Tim Stone, Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art announces plans for Thailand outpost

Elena Goukassian, Bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease found in Guggenheim Museum cooling tower

Anny Shaw, Hauser & Wirth cleared of Russian sanction charges

Daniel Grant, Midjourney strikes back: sued AI giant demands Hollywood’s secrets

From the Editors, K-pop stars BTS and British Museum band together for art trail

Martin Bailey, The story behind Iran’s only Van Gogh: ‘At Eternity’s Gate’

Artforum

Laszlo Horvath, Salutations from Siena

From the Editors, Santa Monica’s Affordable Post-Fair is Going To Paris This Fall

From the Editors, Artist Mickalene Thomas accused of Copyright Infringement by Photographer Barbara Karant

From the Editors, David Odo to Lead Honolulu Museum of Art

From the Editors, Valerie Brathwaite, Whose Curvaceous and Colorful Sculptures Channeled the Natural World of the Caribbean, Is Dead

Artnet

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Anish Kapoor on Malevich, Mortality, and the Meaning of a Void

Katya Kazakina, After Championing Other Artists for Decades, Tony Bechara Finally Lands in the Spotlight

Sonia Manalili and Ben Davis, The Case for M.C. Escher

Min Chen, Heritage Auctions Posts Record $1.4 Billion Mid-Year Total, as Collectibles Market Roars

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Buckingham Palace Gallery Revives the Salon-Style Hang

Margaret Carrigan, Hauser & Wirth Cleared of Russia Sanctions Charge

ARTnews

Brian Boucher, A Jersey Worn by Knicks Point Guard Jalen Brunson in NBA Finals Fetches $1 M. at Sotheby’s

Howard Halle, Who Was Robert Rauschenberg and Why Was He So Important?

Anne Doran, MFA Houston Announces Recent Acquisitions, Including Works by Ferdinand Hodler, Peter Bradley, Anicka Yi, and More

Tessa Solomon, Appeals Court Denies President Trump’s Request to Restore Name to Kennedy Center

Andy Battaglia, Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi Appointed President of Sharjah Museums Authority

Alex Greenberger, Edi Rama, Artist and Albanian Prime Minister, Defends Controversial Kanye West Concert Near Tirana

Anne Doran, Egyptian Archeologists Discover ‘Golden Tongues’ Inside Sealed Tombs at Ancient Coastal City

Leigh Anne Miller, Polarizing Portrait of King Charles Included in Buckingham Palace’s Picture Gallery Rehang

Tessa Solomon, New York Investigators Return 59 Looted Antiquities to Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia

Maximilíano Durón, Honolulu Museum of Art Appoints New Director

EDITOR’S PICK - Harrison Jacobs, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Slams White House Report As ‘Not a Fair Characterization’ of Museum’s Scholarship: Bunch wrote that the report was “not a fair characterization of the work and totality of the National Museum of American History.”

Brian Boucher, Hauser & Wirth Cleared by UK Judge of Breaching Russia Sanctions with Sale of a George Condo Artwork

ArtReview

Shaunak Mahbubani, Can Oceanic Studies Turn the Tide of Collective Amnesia?

Panthea Lee, Toward a Cultural Memory Beyond Inheritance

From the Editors, Hauser & Wirth cleared of Russian sanctions charge

From the Editors, Busan Biennale announces artists for 2026 edition

The Brooklyn Rail

Lee Ann Norman, Derrick Adams: View Master

Charles Moore, Dumitru Gorzo: Șantier

Charles Moore, History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme. Dumile Feni: African Guernica

Mark Van Proyen, Chiharu Shiota: Two Home Countries

Jason Rosenfeld, Gerhard Richter: Landschaften

Frieze

From the Editors, What to See Across Europe This Summer

The Guardian

Ben Eastham, Debjani Banerjee review: is that a Henry hoover – or a Hindu deity?

Jonathan Jones, Feathered frolics, webcam landscapes and The Hay Wain – the week in art

Philip Oltermann, Completely nuts: Dutch gallery covers floor in peanut butter to honour late artist

Kevin Rawlinson, Bayeux tapestry crosses Channel in dead of night for historic UK exhibition

Hyperallergic

Valentina Di Liscia, Warhol Foundation Awards $5.1M to 78 Arts Organizations

Isa Farfan, Venice Arts Workers to Protest During US Ambassador’s Visit

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Required Reading

Sigourney Shultz, The Artist Sculpting World Cup History Out of Gum Wrappers

Isa Farfan, Chicago Photographer Accuses Mickalene Thomas of Copyright Infringement

Randa Jumean, The Tattoo Artist Inking Arabic Script on Skin

Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Johnson: New Paintings from California, New England and Europe

The Los Angeles Times

Jessica Gelt, Lucas Museum to give free annual passes to South L.A. neighbors, host community preview day

Todd Martens, Meow Wolf taps famed L.A. animation house for its new Los Angeles venue

The New York Times

Alex Marshall, Bayeux Tapestry Arrives in U.K. After Maximum-Security Operation

Observer

Sarah Moroz, At Ebbio, the Parisian Art Consultancy IDA Offers Artists the Luxury of Unstructured Time

John Scott Lewinski, The British Cars That Command the Most Reverence—and the Highest Prices

Elisa Carollo, Kingsley Ng and Angel Hui’s “Fermata” Brings the Rhythms of Hong Kong to Venice

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Russia offers to send restorers to Iran’s bombed heritage sites, official says

Adam Schrader, North Korea opens anti-U.S. art exhibition for ‘class education’

Adam Schrader, Texas Tech strips courses of race and queer themes, faculty lawsuit alleges

Adam Schrader, ‘The gates stay closed’: Artists Joseph Matick and Vato Mierda navigate money, access in Paris

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The Art Newspaper

Helen Stoilas, White, patriarchal and Christian: White House’s vision for the National Museum of American History

Garry Shaw, Hundreds of ancient coins and inscribed pottery fragments discovered at Byzantine site in Egypt

Gareth Harris, Icom adopts new code of ethics for museums in bid to address a ‘rapidly changing world’

Simon Bainbridge, Flamenco, fashion and freedom: three photography shows to see at Les Rencontres d’Arles

Gabriella Angeleti, New Museum names Massimiliano Gioni as new director

Maev Kennedy, Buckingham Palace doubles number of paintings on display in rehung picture gallery

Artforum

Linda Yablonsky, Northern Soul: Camaraderie and Cool During Upstate Art Weekend

From the Editors, American Museum Of Natural History To Repatriate Native American Hair Clippings

From the Editors, Busan Biennale Names Artists for 2026 Edition

From the Editors, New Prize from Fundación Kahlo Will Support Emerging Mexican Artists

From the Editors, U.K. Businessman Fined for Attempting to Ship Four Artworks to Russia, Violating Sanctions

Artnet

Katya Kazakina, After Championing Other Artists for Decades, Tony Bechara Finally Lands in the Spotlight

Min Chen, Rarely Seen Botero Works Spotlight His Overlooked New York Years

ARTnews

Daniel Cassady, George Condo Returns to Hauser & Wirth Less Than One Year After Leaving the Gallery

Devorah Lauter, Curator Ingrid Schaffner Talks Hauser & Wirth’s Henry Taylor—James Jarvaise Show

Alex Greenberger, Photographer Accuses Mickalene Thomas of Copyright Infringement in New Lawsuit

Anne Doran, Italy Advances Legislation on Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art

Leigh Anne Miller, Artissima Announces 180 International Exhibitors Participating in Fall Art Fair in Turin

George Nelson, Sotheby’s Is Adapting to a Softer Wine Market by Selling Access and Experiences—Not Just Bottles

Maximilíano Durón, Lari Pittman Responds to Marc Spiegler’s Op-Ed, Leonard Feinstein Consigned $35 M. Picasso to Hauser & Wirth: Industry Moves for July 8, 2026

Maximilíano Durón, High Line Art Wants the Public’s Opinion on 62 Artist Proposals for Its Plinth Commission

Leigh Anne Miller, The Netherlands and Germany Agree to Return 2,000 Artifacts to Ghana

Daniel Cassady, Belgium’s Magritte-Inspired World Cup Jersey Is Having a Moment After Win Over US

Tessa Solomon, Artist Files Copyright Lawsuit Against David Salle Over Painting Removed from Gallery Show

Andy Battaglia, American Museum of Natural History to Repatriate 2,700 Native American Hair Samples Under NAGPRA

Alex Greenberger, Artist ‘Interrupted’ Whitney Museum’s Displays with Pro-Palestine Messages

ArtReview

EDITOR’S PICK - Jenny Wu, Why Can’t Art Biennials Be Small?: Largescale international fests have dominated the artworld in recent decades. A series of new exhibitions attempt something more local, but what, Jenny Wu asks, does it mean to be a local in the first place?

From the Editors, Busan Biennale announces artists for 2026 edition

The Brooklyn Rail

Jessica Holmes, Mark di Suvero: Avanti!

Saul Ostrow, Fairfield Porter: What Everyone Knows

Ekin Erkan, Marcel Duchamp

Alfred Mac Adam, Agnes Martin: Works on Paper from the 1960s

Pujan Karambeigi, Marcel Duchamp

The Guardian

Tim Jonze, ‘A lot of art in Ireland was made by one type of man’: Richard Malone on taking his colourful fabric creations to the EU Council

Alex Needham, ‘I dealt with death, bankruptcy and HIV in three months’: Andreas Angelidakis on his radical, Ru Paul-influenced art installation

Nick Buckley, Bed rot, doomscrolling and a single goldfish: the Melbourne art show blowing loneliness open

Hyperallergic

Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Yervant Gianikian, Valerie Brathwaite, and Jerry Moriarty

Rhea Nayyar, Artist Sells $25 Trash Souvenirs Found Outside Taylor Swift’s Wedding

Debra Brehmer, Gertrude Abercrombie’s Band of Midwest Magic Realists

Eileen G’Sell, The Hidden History of Stock Photography

Isa Farfan, Whitney Museum Screens Taken Over With Gaza Protest Messages

The Los Angeles Times

Lisa Boone, After her son’s death, she found a new purpose. ‘He’s whispering, ‘Mom, this is your path’

Todd Martens, A meal with an animated Mona Lisa? Immersive dining goes high tech — but will L.A. eat it up?

The New York Times

Arthur Lubow, Paul Thek’s Art Legacy: A Shriek and a Giggle

Carolina A. Miranda, She Became a Private Eye for Her Art. Investigators Had Questions.

Observer

Dan Duray, Marilyn Minter Reflects On Four Decades of Beauty, Grit and Banishing Shame

Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Pierre Huyghe” at Fondation Beyeler

Elisa Carollo, Phillips’s CEO Martin Wilson On What the House’s $507 Million Spring Reveals About the Market

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Hauser & Wirth wins George Condo back as other artists drop off its roster

Adam Schrader, Muscarelle director’s family ties to September 11 shape anniversary architecture show

Adam Schrader, After her father’s death, Diane Briones Williams says grief reshaped her practice

Adam Schrader, NASA recommended sending over 95% of Goddard’s library to GSA before 60-day review

Adam Schrader, FOIA Documents: NASA’s Goddard library assessment and disposition records

The Wall Street Journal

Lance Esplund, ‘Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds’ Review: The Jewish Museum’s Narrow Take on an Artist

The Washington Post

Elahe Ezadi, Who is the museum director attacked by the White House?

Whitehot

Manuela Annamaria Accinno, Interview: The Time of flesh, The flash of myth: The archeology of the present in the art of Mimmo Paladino

Isabella Ada Bergmann, Mark Whalen & Salomon Huerta: LUMBRE at Ruttkowski;68 Paris

J. Scott Orr, The Strange Geometry of Cake: Andreas Schulze at Sprüth Magers

Emma Cieslik, “Conceptualize tragedy:” A conversation about art memorializing the survivors of Irish Industrial Schools and Mother and Baby Homes with Olwen Kelly

Gary Brewer, Dynaton: Convocation of Radiant Beings at Château Shatto

Grace Palmer, Investigating the Elsewhere: Freya Tewelde at Gallery 1957

Luman Jiang, 1974/2026: Kishio Suga and the Slash Date

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The Art Newspaper

Vincent Noce, Gang steals jewellery worth €4.5m from Lalique Museum in France in 11-minute heist

Sophia Kishkovsky, Ukraine gives its troops a handbook on protecting cultural property

Annabel Keenan, The Nevada Museum of Art puts sustainability at its core

Simon Bainbridge, Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective’s sprawling Arles installation offers haunting world view

David D’Arcy, Joseph Beuys was ambitious, ‘perhaps to the point of megalomania’, says a new book about the German artist

Gareth Harris, July Book Bag: from a selection of US folk art to a closer look at the work of YBA Gary Hume

Artforum

Raúl de Nieves, From Athens with Love

Theo Belci, Detroit Institute of Arts Director Attributes 17th-Century Portrait To Diego Velázquez

From the Editors, Yemen Identifies 28 Allegedly Looted Artifacts in London

From the Editors, Massimiliano Gioni Appointed Director of the New Museum

From the Editors, $4.5M in Jewelry Stolen in French Museum Heist

Artnet

Min Chen, Daniel Arsham Is Selling His Historic Firehouse Home and Studio

Andrew Russeth, Massimiliano Gioni Will Lead the New Museum

Jo Lawson-Tancred, This Giant Spider at Frieze London Will Transport You to a Digital World

Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, Breakups, Shake-Ups, and Make-Ups! Anne Imhof and Eliza Douglas Share the Stage Again, Upstate Art Weekend, and More Juicy Art World Gossip!

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón, Warhol Foundation Announces $5.2 M. in Grants to 78 Arts Organizations, Including 33 First-Time Grantees

Leigh Anne Miller, Denmark’s Louisiana Museum Announces Remedios Varo Exhibition in Fall 2026

Leigh Anne Miller, Check Out the Art Behind the Scenes of Loro Piana’s Fall/Winter 2026 Ad Campaign

Maximilíano Durón, Fundación Kahlo Launches $50,000 Prize for Emerging Mexican Artists

Tessa Solomon, Pro-Palestinian Cultural Workers Call for Strike Over US Ambassador’s Visit to Venice

Daniel Cassady, Phillips Posts $507 M. in First Half of 2026 as Watch Business Drives 60 Percent Jump in Auction Sales

Daniel Cassady, Luísa Cunha, the Portuguese Artist Whose Sound Sculptures Explored the Power of Language, Dies at 77

Maximilíano Durón, Massimiliano Gioni Named Director of New York’s New Museum

Alex Greenberger, Valerie Brathwaite, Sculptor Who Drew Parallels Between Landscapes and Bodies, Has Died

Brian Boucher, An English National Is the First to Be Convicted of Violating Sanctions Against Russia

ArtReview

From the Editors, Massimiliano Gioni promoted to New Museum director

From the Editors, Valerie Brathwaite, artist who looked to the Caribbean’s landscape for inspiration, 1938–2026

The Brooklyn Rail

William Davie, Anthony van Dyck: Van Dyck, the European

Neil Baldwin, Tracey Emin: A Second Life

Amanda Gluibizzi, N. Dash: Geophilia

Saul Ostrow, Joseph Kosuth: I Shall Offer It To You As A Ready-Made Product

Stephen Frailey, Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, & Harry Callahan

Cultured

Giuliana Brida, NYC Tourists Get Statue of Liberty Keychains. In the Hamptons, You Can Now Buy the Real Thing.

Sophia Shyer, At Hauser & Wirth Paris, Ceramicist Erin Siena Jobs Gets Low Tech

Isabella Bernstein, Here Are the 14 Must-See Solo Shows in Paris This Summer

Frieze

Harriet Lloyd-Smith, Close Encounters with Chloe Wise

Galerie

Alexandria Sillo, Gerard & Kelly Re-Inhabit the Iconic Villa Benkemoun in Arles

Caroline Roux, Man’s Relationship to Animals Explored Through Finely Crafted Objects at Hôtel de la Marine in Paris

Rima Suqi, Meet the Maker Crafting Exceptional Ceramics Installed in Private Homes, Glamorous Resorts, and the Vatican

Caroline Roux, Discover the Stand Out Moments from PAD Saint-Tropez

The Guardian

Catherine Slessor, Ushida Findlay review: the mighty culture clash that gave us the dazzling Soft and Hairy House

Nino Bucci, ‘Pam the Bird’ has become a divisive fixture on Melbourne landmarks – but is it art or vandalism?

Hyperallergic

Phillip Pyle, Valerie Brathwaite, Abstract Sculptor of the Natural World, Dies at 87

Rhea Nayyar, Massimiliano Gioni Named Director of New Museum

From the Editors, 8 Art Books to Reframe America’s 250th

Tara Anne Dalbow, John Giorno Put Poetry on the Line

Lauren Moya Ford, John Constable’s Four Seasons

Isa Farfan, Texas Covers Up Beloved “Black Artists Matter” Mural in Austin

Rhea Nayyar, Belgium’s Magritte-Inspired Soccer Jersey Mirrors a Surreal World Cup

The New York Times

Jason Farago, New Museum’s Next Director Aims to Keep It ‘Edgy’

Walker Mimms, America250? Try Bangladesh 2.

Zachary Small, Decades Late, Museum Scrambles to Return 2,700 Native Remains

Observer

EDITOR’S PICK - Elisa Carollo, Zohran Mamdani’s Culture Budget Is Historic, But New York Needs a Broader Plan for Protecting Artists and the Arts: His securing a record $323.8 million for the Department of Cultural Affairs is a hopeful start, but the city’s cultural crisis demands a strategy that goes beyond emergency funding.

Sarah Moroz, Positioned for Growth, Riga Contemporary Is Small by Design and Serious About Staying That Way

Christa Terry, The Tennis Memoirs That Go Beyond the Game

Elisa Carollo, Stephanie Hessler’s Vision for Swiss Institute’s New Permanent Bowery Home

Puck

Marion Maneker, The Summer of de Kooning

The Wall Street Journal

Kelly Crow, Jewelry Thieves Strike Another French Museum

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Apollo Magazine

Robert Rubsam, Who gets to be an American artist?

Anna Brady, Old Masters show their muscle in London

From the Editors, Mexican government faces lawsuit to stop modern masterpieces leaving country

Samuel Reilly, In search of Ghana’s looted Asante gold

Art Asia Pacific

Joyce Lee, Abu Dhabi Welcomes New Frank Gehry-Designed Performing Arts Center

Sabrina Hau, Canadian Minister Criticizes Palestine Exhibition at National Museum

The Art Newspaper

EDITOR’S PICK - Gareth Harris, Interest in art’s benefit to health grows as Wales and Greece take major steps: Government awareness is increasing globally as the emphasis shifts from treatment towards prevention

Hadani Ditmars, Experts blame extensive earthquake damage in Venezuela on decades of government neglect

Scarlet Cheng, Raven Halfmoon brings her giant doubles to Ballroom Marfa

Daniel Grant, When two become one: the complex dance of museum mergers

Hadani Ditmars, Experts blame extensive earthquake damage in Venezuela on decades of government neglect

Daniel Grant, When two become one: the complex dance of museum mergers

Scarlet Cheng, Raven Halfmoon brings her giant doubles to Ballroom Marfa

Gareth Harris, The worst of us: a philosopher’s guide to the world’s most depraved art

Chloë Ashby, How novelists continue to be inspired by artists

José da Silva, An expert’s guide to Gustave Courbet: five must-read books on the French painter

Eileen Kinsella, Sotheby’s partners with the Virgil Abloh Estate to sell a set of rare prints to fund university scholarships

Riah Pryor, Man jailed as Sotheby’s due diligence foils antiquities fraud

Artforum

From the Editors, White House Attacks Smithsonian for “Extreme Political Activism”

From the Editors, London’s National Gallery Gifted Angelica Kauffman Painting of Achilles

From the Editors, Plagiarism Dispute Emerges Over Installation At Manifesta 16 In Germany

From the Editors, Estonia’s Tallinn Art Hall Will Reopen Following Five Year Restoration

Artnet

Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, In Chloe Wise’s ‘Extrasensory’ Basel Show, UFOs Meet Scripture

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Businessman Fined in U.K.’s First Russia Art Sanctions Conviction

Vittoria Benzine, Le Corbusier Vandalized This House. An Artist Is Reclaiming Its Memory

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón, Jonathan Anderson Takes Inspiration from Sculptor Lynda Benglis for Dior’s Latest Haute Couture Collection

Daniel Cassady, Former Marlborough Gallery Space in Chelsea Sells for $7.5 M.

Karen Chernick, The Frida Kahlo Effect: Why the Mexican Artist Is Still a Pop-Cultural Icon Today

Tessa Solomon, Amid Its Own Copyright Controversy, Midjourney Asks Court to Reveal How Disney Uses AI

Andy Battaglia, 2,000-Year-Old Gold Rings Found in Thailand by Human Bones

Maximilíano Durón, Portrait of Spanish Count-Duke Is Newly Attributed to Velázquez by Detroit Institute of Arts Director

Anne Doran, Archaeologists Uncover a Well-Preserved Byzantine-Era City in Egypt’s Western Desert

Tessa Solomon, Yemen Identifies 28 Looted Artifacts at British Museum, London Auction Houses

Alex Greenberger, Yervant Gianikian, Artist Who Helped Win Armenia the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion, Dies at 84

Daniel Cassady, Oregon Estate Sale’s $45 Chinese Paintings Could Be Worth Millions, Lawsuit Claims

Devorah Lauter, Jewelry Heist at French Decorative Arts Museum Is Latest in Spate of Thefts

Alex Greenberger, Artist Sues Downtown New York Gallery, Alleging That He Wasn’t Paid for Sold Artworks

Sheryl Nance-Nash, Meet the Founders of Black Crown, the Only Active Black-Owned Fine Art Auction House in the US

Harrison Jacobs, In New Report, White House Accuses Smithsonian Museum of Abandoning Scholarship for Extreme ‘Political Activism’

ArtReview

Marcus Civin, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Is Awfully Nice

From the Editors, Shahrnush Parsipur, Persian literature’s uncompromising voice, 1946–2026

BOMB

Yutong Shi, Kainoa Gruspe by Yutong Shi

The Brooklyn Rail

Phong H. Bui, Willem de Kooning: The Insatiable Master

Rebecca Allen, Women Across America: 1945–1979

Sarah Barash, Circa 1776: Jews in Colonial America

Rosa Boshier González, David Hockney: Works from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

Ann McCoy, Anselm Kiefer: The Women Alchemists

Frieze

From the Editors, Frieze London Artist Award Winner Theo Triantafyllidis Is Creating a Giant Spider

Nicholas Gamso, Oliver Osborne Asks How We Picture Childhood

Oriane Durand, Shuang Li Enters the Eye of the Digital Storm

The Guardian

Cath Slessor, Ushida Findlay review: the mighty culture clash that gave us the dazzling Soft and Hairy House

Nino Bucci, ‘Pam the Bird’ has become a divisive fixture on Melbourne landmarks – but is it art or vandalism?

Lanre Bakare, ‘I’ve always used my voice online’: the rapid rise of photographer Misan Harriman – and what happened next

Dee Jefferson, ‘Charged with horror and anguish’: Arthur Boyd’s nightmarish Nebuchadnezzar series opens in major new Bundanon show

Hyperallergic

Isa Farfan, Trump Accuses Smithsonian of “Anti-White Activism” in Draconian New Report

Anna Lee, The Met Museum’s Staff Have Some Thoughts About the Art

Natalie Haddad, Carmelita Tropicana Was Born Out of the Closet

Rhea Nayyar, Thieves Steal Over $4.5M in Jewelry From French Museum

Laura Zornosa, In Two Chicago Exhibitions, Liberation Takes the Floor

Michael Glover, The Ruthless Portraits of Elizabeth I’s Reign

The Los Angeles Times

Steve Peoples, White House report brands Smithsonian leadership as radical activists who can’t be trusted

The New York Times

Zachary Small, Another Smithsonian Director Faces the White House’s Wrath

Jennifer Schuessler, The History at the Smithsonian That the White House Finds Unpatriotic

Richard Sandomir, Richard H. Glanton, Combative Head of Barnes Foundation, Dies at 79

Observer

Daniel Grant, When Art Forgeries Are Exposed, the Fakes Don’t Simply Disappear

Caleb Anderson, Six Rare Rolexes That Explain the Top of the Brand’s Vintage Market

Elisa Carollo, Anoushka Mirchandani On the Body as Personal and Familial Archive

Elisa Carollo, In London’s Classics Week Sales, Old Masters Were Back, But Only the Best of the Best

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, White House says Smithsonian ‘cannot be trusted’

Adam Schrader, Nantucket artist fired by arts association for letting autistic teen take figure drawing class

Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Congdon-Pinto v. Artists Association of Nantucket

Adam Schrader, David Hines says art sales can distort artists’ work

The Wall Street Journal

J.S. Marcus, ‘Matisse: 1941-1954’ Review: A Career’s Vibrant Conclusion

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Art in America

Jackson Arn, Why We Can’t Get Enough Juicy Art Heist Stories

Cat Dawson, A Standout 250th Show Confronts Centuries of American Contradictions

The Art Newspaper

EDITOR’S PICK - Joshua Niland, Comment | American museum expansions must go beyond glass and steel to serve modern audiences: While increasing their built footprints, US museums also need to expand their accessibility to the public. By failing to do so they risk blowing a chance to democratise new spaces at a critical time

Georgina Adam, Can a Riga fair foster a new generation of collectors in Latvia?

Gareth Harris, National Gallery in London adds to its collection of women artists with Angelica Kauffman donation

Artforum

Noelle Bodick, Fight Night: Hirshhorn vs. UFC

Artnet

Margaret Carrigan, New White House Report Alleges ‘Anti-White’ Bias at Smithsonian

Richard Whiddington, British Museum Recasts America’s Founding Through Indigenous Eyes

Ben Davis, The Almost-Canonized: A Closer Look at the Artists Museums Are Showing Now

Min Chen, Frank Gehry Changed the Face of Museums. A Potent Survey Shows How

Vittoria Benzine, Le Corbusier Vandalized This House. An Artist Is Reclaiming Its Memory

Jo Lawson-Tancred, On the Hunt for the Best Art in Ibiza

Min Chen, Did This Large Animatronic Bear Inspire Jeff Koons? It’s Heading to Auction

Margaret Carrigan, There’s New Money in Old Masters

Jo Lawson-Tancred, British Museum Rakes in $3.3M in Bayeux Tapestry Ticket Sales

Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan, New Money in Old Masters

Sonia Manalili and Min Chen, How Doug Aitken Thinks in Music

ARTnews

Anne Doran, Tens of Thousands Try for Tickets to See Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum

ArtReview

From the Editors, The Interview: Shirin Neshat & Shahrnush Parsipur

Adeline Chia, Raving with Priyageetha Dia

From the Editors, The 12 Exhibitions to See in July 2026

From the Editors, Shahrnush Parsipur, Persian literature’s uncompromising voice, 1946–2026

From the Editors, Artist alleges plagiarism at Manifesta 16

The Brooklyn Rail

Tobias Wofford, Washington, DC and Struggles over History

Sarah Archer, Bicentennial Women: Feminism, Antifeminism, and Craft

Kirk Savage, Cherokee250+

Connie Young Yu and Amy Kahng, Keeping Our Stories Alive

Elise Armani and Katy Siegel, Exhibitions for the Semiquincentennial

Financial Times

Roula Khalaf, The best art exhibitions to see in London right now

The Guardian

David Smith, ‘Flight originated from the imagination’: how artists have captured space travel

Peter Bradshaw, Shoot the People review – a powerful portrait of a talented yet controversial photographer

Hyperallergic

Sofia Thiệu D’Amico, Akira Ikezoe’s Frogs and Bears Have Something Urgent to Tell Us

John Yau, Charles Seliger Painted Nature’s Invisible Architecture

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel With Arghavan Khosravi

Isa Farfan, Revisiting 35 Years of an Iconic Newark Artist-Led Space

The New York Times

Jason Farago, The Most Iconic American Artwork Is the Hardest to See

Emily LaBarge, Natural Bedfellows: Frida Kahlo’s and Tracey Emin’s Parallel Blockbusters

Graham Bowley, Robin Pogrebin, and Jennifer Schuessler, White House Criticizes Smithsonian Museum for ‘Extreme Political Activism’

Derrick Bryson Taylor, On America’s 250th, Smithsonian Museums Offer Respite and Reflection

Alex Marshall, A One-on-One Date With a Museum’s Treasures

Observer

Emily Zemler, ‘Challengers’ and the Best Movies About Tennis

Elisa Carollo, As the Semiquincentennial Approaches, Collectors Are Rethinking What American History Is Worth

Siddhant Adlakha, In Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland,’ Thomas Mann’s Divided Germany Is a Study of Artistic Compromise and Family Rupture

Dan Duray, With the Taipei Biennial Ahead, Cecilia Alemani Reflects On What Makes an Exhibition Feel Alive

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Evacuated Trump supporters shelter from thunderstorm in African American museum

Adam Schrader, Brooklyn gallery sued over Jay-Z figurines loses separate eviction fight by default

Adam Schrader, Urgent Matter launches digital ‘print’ edition for paid subscribers

The Wall Street Journal

From the Editors, Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of July 5

David McCullough, An Icon’s Secret

From the Editors, 10 Masterpieces to Celebrate the Nation’s 250th Birthday

Brian P. Kelly, ‘Folk Nation: Crafting Patriotism in the United States’ Review: A Sketchy View of National Pride

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